Rashomon

75 Years

We’re jumping farther into the past to commemorate a great movie you may not have heard of, but you should.

Rashomon is a Japanese film from Akira Kurosawa, one of the greatest directors who ever lived. His film Seven Samurai is one of the most influential films made anywhere in the world, and so is Rashomon. If you’ve ever watched a movie or a TV show that’s about multiple perspectives on a crime, then you’ve felt the influence of Rashomon. But Rashomon’s imitators often breeze past this bleak samurai story’s dark ambiguity and willingness to straight-up lie to its audience. I feel lucky to live in a world where Rashomon wasn’t lost to history and can celebrate 75 years of influencing films.