Mark Kermode reviews Rashomon (1950) | BFI Player

[GreenMorningDragonProductions]

0:43 I used to live just up the street from the location of the Rashomon Gate. The area is well worth a visit. Toji Temple is outstanding.

[ivanelnelita]

The greatest movie of all time. Hands down. And the greatest director of all time.

[KeyserTheRedBeard]

nice video BFI. I shattered the thumbs up on your video. Always keep up the quality work.

[SouthdownsJohn]

The most annoying thing is when people say Kurosawa is not Japanese enough. ' Rashomon ' is a great Japanese film.

[djtforever]

I can't find a copy of this....if I had a Nickel for every time I heard a different side to a story....

[johnhooper]

I have to say I agree, the later film had stunning effects and, of course, was in colour but I think the earlier film with it's British cast somehow captured the period and the class differences on a passenger ship in 1912 more accurately. I thought Leonardo di Capri was mis-cast, he didn't look right to play the character and the story of his affair with a 1st class passenger didn't seem realistic and detracted from the story which should have concentrated on the drama of the sinking of the ship and the hubris of the owners, builders and officers that the ship was unsinkable! Maybe it was just that I saw the 1957 film as an impressionable boy, part of a school group taken to the cinema to see the film as a treat.

[JonnyInfinite]

I've seen Rashomon, there are better Kurosawa films in my view