Rashomon

If people accuse me of only watching b-grade movie, anime and hentai I can prove them wrong. Today I bought the DVD Rashamon which is very hard to find and costs me RM10. Rashomon does not have anything to to with Doraemon, Digimon or Pokemon ok =.=


Rashomon is a classic black and white movie by Akira Kurosowa. It was made in 1950 and still regarded as one of the best movie ever.

The Storyline:

A man was seeking shelter from the rain and got into the Rashomon temple. There a woodcutter and a monk was sitting, looking confused and dazed of the incident that happened 3 days ago.

Apparently a man was killed and the incident at the court shook them up.

It was the woodcutter that found the body
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The monk met the victim and his wife on the road before the incident.

Then they caught the bandit that was supposed to kill the man.

The Bandit's story:
He saw the man and his wife passed by and was mesmerized by the man's wife. So he tricked the man, ambushed him and tied him to a tree. Then he raped the man's wife but he has no intention of killing the man. However after that..

which leads to ..After a fierce battle, the bandit managed to kill the man.

Case closed? Next the wife testified

According to her, the bandit left them alone after thet but the husband was giving her afunny stare

which leads to her stabbing him..

Ok, at this stage we have one murder and 2 confessions. The judge is blur so its time to call the CSI. Unfortunately there are no CSI in olden days, but they have something better than CSI. A medium to called the dead man to testify.


The dead man's story:-
The bandit managed to convince the man's wife to follow him and leave the man on the condition that the bandit must kill the man..

The bandit was shocked at this request and wanted to kill the wife instead but she got away. Then he released the man but later the man commited suicide.

Case closed? Back at the temple the monk said that dead man don't tell lies but another said dead man maybe lie to protect thier name. At this moment the woodcutter was upset and said they were all lying because he saw what really happened.

The woodcutter's story:
The bandit was asking the man's wife to follow him but the wife said its not her decision and thus released the man. Unfortunately the man does not want to fight for his wife's honor.


Then the bandit also feel reluctant to fight over the woman.


Thw wife was laughing at her husband that he cares so much about his honor but dare not fight about it and the bandit was useless also..

Both men were ashamed and thus start the fight over honor between not so honorable men..

Great stuff for a movie using flashback technique and better than Vantage Point.

If there were a remake, I wish that Quentin Tarantino would direct it ha ha.

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