Mark Kermode reviews Rashomon (1950) | BFI Player

Mark Kermode introduces Akira Kurosawa’s breakthrough film, credited with bringing Japanese cinema to worldwide audiences. Watch Rashomon on BFI Player (UK only): player.bfi.org.uk/subscription/film/watch-rashomon-1950-online
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[@bennoclassico]

By far my favourite Kurosawa

[@GreenMorningDragonProductions]

0:43 I used to live just up the street from the location of the Rashomon Gate. The area is well worth a visit. Toji Temple is outstanding.

[@KeyserTheRedBeard]

nice video BFI. I shattered the thumbs up on your video. Always keep up the quality work.

[@ivanel12nelita]

The greatest movie of all time. Hands down. And the greatest director of all time.

[@djtforever1414]

I can't find a copy of this....if I had a Nickel for every time I heard a different side to a story....

[@gregarnold1696]

True genius!!!

[@johnhooper7040]

I have to say I agree, the later film had stunning effects and, of course, was in colour but I think the earlier film with it's British cast somehow captured the period and the class differences on a passenger ship in 1912 more accurately. I thought Leonardo di Capri was mis-cast, he didn't look right to play the character and the story of his affair with a 1st class passenger didn't seem realistic and detracted from the story which should have concentrated on the drama of the sinking of the ship and the hubris of the owners, builders and officers that the ship was unsinkable! Maybe it was just that I saw the 1957 film as an impressionable boy, part of a school group taken to the cinema to see the film as a treat.

[@anniemihn]

Mifune is a sex god. Period.

[@SouthdownsJohn]

The most annoying thing is when people say Kurosawa is not Japanese enough. ' Rashomon ' is a great Japanese film.

[@JonnyInfinite]

I've seen Rashomon, there are better Kurosawa films in my view

[@karlkarlos3545]

Maybe, but there are no more important ones.

[@wunderdoggy]

such as? and why ? this tells volumes about humanity

[@karthikmohan1539]

Rashomon should be a half hour longer so that they can wrap up the story.

[@wunderdoggy]

@@karthikmohan1539 no its perfect. just watch the last half hour again

[@karthikmohan1539]

@@wunderdoggy I have watched each and every nuance of the movie. This movie doesn't have an ending. It did not solve the questions raised in second act .