What is Rashomon about?
Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.
Does it have a happy ending? (spoiler-safe)
It leaves the ending open to interpretation.
Rashomon (1950)
Multiple accounts of a murder and a rape weave a complex, suspenseful web of truth and perception.
Cerebral. A late-night trip at a measured pace. Emotionally it is heavy.
Streaming on Max, Kanopy (free), YouTube (free), Plex (free) and Tubi (free).
Rashomon parents guide
There is no US rating to lean on, so here is what we tagged: strong sex and nudity, and strong violence.
- Scare
- Mildly scary
- A few tense or eerie moments.
- Jump scares
- None noted
- Gore
- Light gore
- Some blood or injury, briefly.
- Violence
- Strong violence
- Violence is frequent or intense.
- Sex and nudity
- Strong
- Strong means explicit or repeated sex, extended nudity, or sexual assault shown on screen, attempted or completed, even partly off screen. Any one of these is enough.
- Language
- Mild
- Mild words like damn, hell or crap.
How we rate: an AI reads what is known about each title and tags it 0 to 3; we check the tags against a hand-rated set and correct them by hand when readers tell us. Estimates, not a scene-by-scene review. Spot a mistake? Tell us.
Three questions
- Is Rashomon scary?
- Only a little. Rashomon has a few tense moments, nothing that follows you to bed.
- How gory is Rashomon?
- Light gore and strong violence.
Cast and crew
Directed byAkira Kurosawa
StarringToshirō Mifune, Machiko Kyō, Takashi Shimura, Masayuki Mori, Minoru Chiaki, Kichijirō Ueda
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Rashomon is on our Martial arts, Under 90 minutes, Japanese, Classics (pre-1970) and Drama on Max lists.
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