
"진실은 무엇인가"
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전란이 난무하는 헤이안 시대, 폭우가 쏟아지는 라생문의 처마 밑에서 나뭇꾼과 스님이 심각한 표정으로 생각에 잠겨 있다. 잠시 비를 피하러 그곳에 들른 한 남자. 이들은 이 남자를 상대로 최근에 그 마을에 있었던 기묘한 사건을 들려준다. 사건의 배경은 녹음이 우거진 숲 속. 사무라이 타케히로가 자신의 아내 마사코와 함께 숲 속을 지나고 있었다. 산적 타조마루는 그들 앞에 나타나 속임수로 타케히로를 포박하고 마사코를 겁탈한다. 오후에 그 숲에 들어선 나뭇꾼은 타케히로의 가슴에 칼이 꽂혀있는 것을 발견하고 관청에 신고한다. 타조마루는 체포되고, 행방이 묘연했던 마사코도 불려와 관청에서 심문이 벌어지는데...
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TMDB에서 전체 보기Rashomon beguiles through the torrential downpour of fabrication. “It’s human to lie. Most of the time we can’t even be honest with ourselves”. Honesty. Deceit. Contradiction. A crucial part of human preservation is the requirement to lie. Intentional or accidental, it’s within our ancestral blood. The unprejudiced can succumb to the immoral values of deceit, either through meticulous storytelling…
In what seems like an endless, almost biblical, rainstorm we meet three people sheltering in the ruins of an old gatehouse. Each has their own story to tell of the rape of a woman and of the murder of her husband. It was the woodcutter (Takashi Shimura) who discovered the body and who alerted the authorities. It was those authorities that conducted a trial at which a priest (Minoru Chiaki), the wo…
**A good movie.** Despite acknowledging the quality and attention to detail, I can't really enjoy Japanese cinema. Maybe because it's so different from what we have around here. But even being so different, we have to recognize the talent of those who have it. Akira Kurosawa is a director with a sharp eye and detail, who knows how to direct the people under his command and extract from each one…
I rarely ever give a film a perfect score, but undoubtedly Rashomon deserves it. I first watched this film at the tender age of 8, so 6 years ago now, and it has lodged deep in my head ever since. The film is beautiful in a way no other film is, and the sculpting of each character is simply perfect. It's an idea which I refuse to call a murder mystery, since it's not asking to be solved. F…



















