Rashomon

In a house broken down house known for crime 2 men hide from heavy rains till a third comes up and they tell him the story of the woman samurai and bandit. there is 4 different points of view given from the 1 man in the house who seen it the woman the bandit and a medium speaking for the dead. It is a very weird and twisting movie to follow plays on people psychology. You never find what the truth is in this movie. At the end of the movie the priest is holding the baby the commoner found in the house and the wood cutter goes to get the baby and priest yells you trying to take what i got left. The woodcutter says i got 6 kids another one wont make any difference which brings us back to the stolen valuable dagger with the ivory inlay.Which it seems the woodcutter stole and cashed in to take care of his family. but who killed the samurai how did it happen and who is to fully blame
release date: Aug 25th 1950 (Japan)
Writer:Ryunosuke Akutagawa (stories)Akira Kurosawa (writer) ...
Genre: Crime Mystery Drama

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Academy Awards, USA
Year	Result	Award	Category/Recipient(s)
1953	Nominated	Oscar	Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White Takashi Matsuyama H. Motsumoto
1952		Honorary Award	Japan. Voted by the Board of Governors as the most outstanding foreign language film released in the United States during 1951.
BAFTA Awards
Year	Result	Award	Category/Recipient(s)
1953	Nominated	BAFTA Film Award	Best Film from any Source Japan.
Blue Ribbon Awards
Year	Result	Award	Category/Recipient(s)
1951	Won	Blue Ribbon Award	Best Screenplay Akira Kurosawa Shinobu Hashimoto
Directors Guild of America, USA
Year	Result	Award	Category/Recipient(s)
1953	Nominated	DGA Award	Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures Akira Kurosawa
Mainichi Film Concours
Year	Result	Award	Category/Recipient(s)
1951	Won	Mainichi Film Concours	Best Actress Machiko Kyô Also for Itsuwareru seiso (1951).
National Board of Review, USA
Year	Result	Award	Category/Recipient(s)
1951	Won	NBR Award	Best Director Akira Kurosawa
			Best Foreign Film Japan.
Venice Film Festival
Year	Result	Award	Category/Recipient(s)
1951	Won	Golden Lion	Akira Kurosawa
		Italian Film Critics Award	Akira Kurosawa
Cast (Complete credited cast) Toshirô Mifune ... Tajômaru Machiko Kyô ... Masako Kanazawa Masayuki Mori ... Takehiro Kanazawa Takashi Shimura ... Woodcutter Minoru Chiaki ... Priest Kichijirô Ueda ... Commoner Noriko Honma ... Medium (as Fumiko Honma) Daisuke Katô ... Policeman