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The Japanese film industry was virtually unknown in the West until this film won the Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival in 1951. A samurai and his wife walk through Rashomon forest; in the woods lurks a bandit who attacks the couple, rapes the woman and kills the samurai - or so it appears. The film tells the same story from four different perspectives: the bandit's, the woman's, the dead samurai's and that of the woodcutter who witnessed the killing. By using this approach, the director, Akira Kurosawa examined the subjective nature of truth and scored the first international hit for Japanese cinema.
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Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyo - Rashomon (Daiei, 1951) |
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Gary Cooper - High Noon (Stanley Kramer/UA, 1952) |
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Charlton Heston - Ben Hur (MGM, 1959) |
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Marilyn Monroe (1953 Photo: Gene Kornman) |
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Gene Kelly - Singin' in the Rain (MGM, 1952) |
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Michael Rennie - The Day The Earth Stood Still (20th Century Fox, 1951) |
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Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Horst Bucholz, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughan, Brad Dexter, James Coburn - The Magnificent Seven (UA, 1960) |
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William Holden, Audrey Hepburn - Sabrina (Paramount, 1954) |
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James Dean, Julie Harris - East of Eden (Warner Bros. 1955) |
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Kirk Douglas - Spartacus (Bryna/Universal, 1960) |
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