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Toshirô Mifune  

 

RASHôMON

                       
 

Daiei Motion Picture Company, 1950.  Directed by Akira Kurosawa.  Camera:  Kazuo Miyagawa.  With Toshirô Mifune, Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki, Kichijiro Ueda, Fumiko Honma, Daisuke Katô.

In 12th century Japan, a samurai and his wife are attacked by the notorious bandit Tajomaru, and the samurai ends up dead.

Tajomaru is captured shortly afterward and is put on trial, but his story and the wife's are so completely different that a psychic is brought in to allow the murdered man to give his own testimony.  He tells yet another completely different story.

Finally, a woodcutter who found the body reveals that he saw the whole thing, and his version is again completely different from the others.

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