Released in 1950, Rashomon was a turning point not only in Japanese cinema but in the world of cinema in general. Director Akira Kurosawa‘s version of the stories of Ryûnsuke Akutagawa was a quiet ...

Seventy-five years ago, Akira Kurosawa’s “Rashomon” opened in Japan. The film revolutionized the structure and grammar of modern cinema as surely as Orson Welles’s “Citizen Kane” had a decade earlier, ...

Akira Kurosawa was a cultural Commodore Perry. His 1950 Rashômon opened the West to Japanese movies. From there, he became one of the giants of ’50s art-house importing, mentionable only with Bergman ...