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Released
1950 · FILM

Rashomon

A weary woodcutter and a contemplative monk seek the truth behind a samurai’s brutal murder, but as they listen to wildly divergent testimonies at Rashōmon gate, each version threatens to shatter their grasp on reality.

“The husband, the wife… or the bandit?”

Directed by
Akira Kurosawa
Written by
Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Akira Kurosawa
Rated
MPA · NR
Color
Black & White
Runtime
88 min
Language
JA
CrimeDramaMystery
Streaming on
  • The Criterion Channel

Synopsis

In the film, four individuals provide distinct accounts of the same event involving a man, each offering a unique perspective that reveals the subjectivity of memory and the complexity of truth.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 16

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Akira KurosawaShot by Kazuo MiyagawaScored by Fumio HayasakaDesigned by Takashi Matsuyama

Box Office

1950 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.5× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$118K

Budget$250K
Worldwide gross$118K
break-even (2.5×)

Full synopsis

Also known as

  • Rashomon – Das Lustwäldchende
  • Rashomonen
  • Rashōmones
  • Rashomonfr

Companies

ProductionDaiei

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