Cinematheque: Kurosawa Centennial

Rashomon is quite possibly the finest fiction film ever made to investigate the philosophy of justice. Kurosawa reveals the complexities of human nature as four people recount different versions of the story of a man’s murder and the rape of his wife. Mifune gives a commanding performance as a bandit in this eloquent masterwork that introduced Japanese cinema to the world. New print from the recent Academy Film Archive restoration.