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Rashomon (1950) - Akira Kurosawa

submitted by pigeon

1 decade 7 years 2 months 1 week ago

The film depicts a rape and murder through the widely differing accounts of four witnesses, including the perpetrator and, through a medium, the murder victim. Each story is mutually contradictory, leaving the viewer unable to determine the truth of the events.

In July 2006, a Japanese court ruled that all Japanese films produced before 1953, including this one, are part of the Public Domain.

8 Comments

That is awesome news! I can't wait to see other earlier Akira Kurosawa pictures come out!

Amazing sift pigeon.

I love the internets and public domain!

I love this film!

Also check out the short story 'In a Grove" by Ryunosuke Akutagawa on which the film is based - it is awesome!

I'm adding this film to my LegalSift playlist because the ideas it raises regarding the subjectivity of truth and the uncertainty of facts should start ringing alarms for any lawyer worth his/her weight!

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Adding video to channels (Cinema) - requested by Eklek.

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This video has been declared non-functional; embed code must be fixed within 2 days or it will be sent to the dead pool - declared dead by eric3579.

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