Review – Rashomon

Though not quite director Akira Kurosawa’s finest moment, it is one of his better-known films and certainly a high-quality effort. The name of this film has become synonymous with tales that recount the same event from multiple points of view, here being the story of a rape and murder told from the perspective of a bandit (played by the legendary Toshiro Mifune), a husband, a wife and a neutral witness to their respective crimes. Though the editing and mis en scene are occasionally a bit on the ponderous side, finer portraits of the frailties of humanity are few and far between. Worth seeing