Rashomon - A Japanese Film By Akiro Kurosawa: Events in Hyderabad

REVIEW FOR RASHOMON - A JAPANESE...

It won the Best Film Academy Award, and advocates looking for the good in people rather than celebrating their wickedness. A must-watch to appreciate the state's government.

The Hyderabad Film Club, as part of the ongoing retrospective on Japanese Director Akira Kurosawa from 14th to 18th October, is screening Rashomon, on 15th October at the Sarathi Studios.

The film won the Best Film award at the Academy Awards in Venic in 1951. The story begins with a scene in 12th century Japan, with a woodcutter and a priest relating conflicting stores to a third man as the group takes shelter under Rashomon gate. The different tales revolve around a bandit, Tajomaru, who has attacked a couple wandering through the woods, tying the husband up and forcing himself on the wife.

The husband was found dead in the forest by the woodcutter, but what actually happened between these people is inconclusive. Tajomaru, the wife, the husband (through a medium), and the woodcutter all present different and irreconciliable versions of the events in question to the authorities.

The woodcutter and priest are disturbed by the absence of an objective truth, but the third man seems not to care. The three find an abandoned baby under the gate, and the third man steals some of the items left with the child and leaves. The priest fears for the baby