Rashomon (1950)

Crime Drama Mystery Directed by Akira Kurosawa
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Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

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Influenced By

  1. Citizen Kane (1941)
    "Akira Kurosawa's film explores multiple perspectives of a single event, challenging the notion of objective truth. Its innovative narrative structure, presenting conflicting accounts, is often compared to the storytelling techniques used in "Citizen Kane."" Thereviewgeek source

Influenced

  1. The Outrage (1964)
    "Martin Ritt's The Outrage is a direct Western remake of Rashomon — same four-witness contradicting-accounts structure, transposed to the post-Civil War American frontier, with Paul Newman in the bandit role. The screenplay credits Kurosawa and Akutagawa." source
  2. The Usual Suspects (1995)
    "Roger Ebert and other critics traced The Usual Suspects' unreliable-narrator structure directly to Rashomon — flashbacks that disagree with any objective reality, with the truth withheld by design. The technique Kurosawa pioneered in 1950 became the film's structural blueprint." source
  3. Hero (2002)
    "Zhang Yimou's Hero adopts Rashomon's contradicting-witness structure to tell the same assassination story four ways. The lineage is universally noted in critical writing on the film and is the canonical example of the 'Rashomon effect' applied to wuxia." source
  4. The Social Network (2010)
    "The film's exploration of multiple perspectives and the subjective nature of truth echoes Akira Kurosawa's *Rashomon*, which presents differing accounts of the same event." Cinema 2010-2019: Best Films of the Past Decade: Fincher’s Social Network, Best Amrican Film of 2010-2019 Emanuellevy
  5. She's Gotta Have It (1986)
    "Spike Lee saw Rashomon in film school and cited it as the structural inspiration: Nola Darling's story told from multiple lovers' perspectives, each contradicting the others." source
  6. 12 Angry Men (1997)
    "Directed by Akira Kurosawa, this film presents multiple perspectives of a crime, highlighting the subjective nature of truth. Its exploration of differing viewpoints within a confined setting parallels the jury deliberations in "12 Angry Men."" The Best Courtroom Dramas Tomris Laffly TIME

Rashomon (1950), directed by Akira Kurosawa, was inspired by 1 earlier film — including Citizen Kane — and has been cited as an influence on 6 later works, such as The Outrage, The Usual Suspects, and Hero. Check out the citations below.