Day 289: Rashomon

Directed By- Akira Kurosawa

Writer(s)- Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto

Starring- Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyo, Minoru Chiaki, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura, Kichijiro Ueda

Critics Review- "An ultimate classic that changed how films were told forever. By telling the story from each character's point of view, "Rashomon" explored how narrative can be biased, and how one person's story is never the whole tale. I highly recommend this film."- Vanessa Sibbald "Zap2it.com"

Rotten Tomatoes Rating- Critics- 100% [CERTIFIED FRESH] Audience- 93%

Out of a possible 5 stars- 5 stars 

My Review- 

I have always heard about Kurosawa in my film classes and how great of a director he was. And after watching this I have to agree with the people that said that. I really enjoyed this movie for many reasons, one of them being there were different perspectives and stories to the incident that took place. I also the movie was big on the exterior scenes where well frankly the whole movie takes place. there is a scene where the woodcutter is walking through the forest and its all visuals as he is walking and for me it was done so well I thought I was in the forest with him looking around. I also really liked how there were about 4 different stories and it was up to us to find out which story was the truth, even though it is answered at the end, you should watch it to see which on was the true story in the movie. I really like watching old movies like this sometimes for many reasons; some of them being that they had to use the resources around them and did not have a lot of time to fix certain things and at times had to keep things in they possibly did not want to keep. This was also a movie about someone that started to lose their faith in man because of the events that took place and this where I stop talking about the film, because this movie is a MUST see for all film fanatics and for those who just like watching old movies. I highly recommend it since the movie is darn good; for the way it is shot, the acting, the story and how its one of those movies where you do not know who to believe until the truth is finally revealed.