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Rashomon
MEANRANK
86/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #94
- IMDb #238
- Google retired #1204
- Rotten Tomatoes #64
- Metacritic #32
- Letterboxd #239
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #115
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #246
- Metacritic Critics #23
- Metacritic Audience #189
- Criticker #47
- Douban #128
- Kinopoisk #449
- AlloCiné #945
- Trakt #497
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 76, highest is Metacritic critics on 98. Critics average 98, everyone else 83.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →In ancient Japan, a brutal crime occurs: a samurai is found dead in a forest. The incident is recounted from the conflicting perspectives of a bandit, the samurai's wife, a woodcutter, and even the deceased himself through a medium. Each testimony presents a radically different version of events, challenging the very nature of truth and revealing how self-interest shapes memory and reality.
Details
- Director
- Akira Kurosawa
- Writers
- Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto
- Based on
- Rashōmon by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
- Studio
- Daiei Film
- Released
- 26 August 1950
- Country
- Japan
- Language
- Japanese
- Runtime
- 88 min
- Rated
- NR
- Budget
- $250.0K
- Box office
- $117.7K
- Awards
- 8 wins, 3 nominations
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Cast
Awards & nominations
See all 11 →1 major award won · 8 wins from 11 nominations across 8 ceremonies
| Academy Awards 1952 | Honorary Foreign Language Film Award | Rashomon ( Japan ) | Winner |
| Academy Awards 1953 | Best Art Direction, Black-and-White | Takashi Matsuyama (art direction) H. Matsumoto ( set decoration ) | Nominee |
| Directors Guild of America Awards 1953 | Outstanding Directing – Feature Film | Akira Kurosawa | Nominee |
| British Academy Film Awards 1953 | Best Film | Rashomon | Nominee |
| Foreign Language Press Film Critics Circle (via WNYC ) 1952 | Best Foreign Film | Rashomon (Robert Mochrie) | Winner |
| Blue Ribbon Awards 1951 | Best Screenplay | Akira Kurosawa Shinobu Hashimoto | Winner |
| National Board of Review Awards 1951 | Best Foreign Film | Rashomon | Winner |
| National Board of Review Awards 1951 | Best Director | Akira Kurosawa | Winner |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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11 awards — Rashomon
×| Honorary Foreign Language Film Award | Rashomon ( Japan ) | Winner |
| Best Art Direction, Black-and-White | Takashi Matsuyama (art direction) H. Matsumoto ( set decoration ) | Nominee |
| Outstanding Directing – Feature Film | Akira Kurosawa | Nominee |
| Best Director | Akira Kurosawa | Winner |
| Best Foreign Film | Rashomon | Winner |
| Golden Lion | Rashomon | Winner |
| Italian Critics’ Prize | Rashomon | Winner |
| Best Screenplay | Akira Kurosawa Shinobu Hashimoto | Winner |
| Best Foreign Film | Rashomon (Robert Mochrie) | Winner |
| Best Actress | Machiko Kyō | Winner |
| Best Film | Rashomon | Nominee |