Watch Full Film - Rashômon (Rashomon) (1950)
The film opens on a woodcutter (木樵り; Kikori, played by Takashi Shimura) and a priest (旅法師; Tabi Hōshi, Minoru Chiaki) sitting beneath the Rajōmon city gate to stay dry in a downpour. A commoner (Kichijiro Ueda) joins them and they tell him that they have witnessed a disturbing story, which they then begin recounting to him. The woodcutter claims he found the body of a murdered samurai three days earlier while looking for wood in the forest; upon discovering the body, he says, he fled in a panic to notify the authorities. The priest says that he saw the samurai with his wife traveling the same day the murder happened. Both men were then summoned to testify in court, where they met the captured bandit Tajōmaru (多襄丸), who claimed responsibility for killing the samurai and raping his wife.
Cast
- Takashi Shimura as Kikori, the wood cutter
- Minoru Chiaki as Tabi Hōshi, the priest
- Kichijiro Ueda as the listener, a common person
- Toshiro Mifune as Tajōmaru, the bandit
- Machiko Kyō as the Samurai’s wife
- Masayuki Mori as the Samurai, the husband
- Noriko Honma as Miko, the medium
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