Rashomon Essay

Rashomon is a Japanese film that that was produced in 1950 by the director, Akira Kurosawa, which is considered one of the most important filmmaker in the history of cinema. Since early age, Akira Kurosawa had interest in samurai stories because his father was and shared his samurai experiences with Akira. In addition, writers such as Kanze Nobumitsu have said that Rashomon is an interpretation of the everyday life of the accident Japanese society. The old temple represents the ancient Raseimon gate, which fell in the 12th century and became a hiding places for thieves, individuals abandoned corpses and unwanted babies. In the film, a samurai is murdered and his wife is raped by a bandit, Tajumaro. The film follows the trial of the assassination

the priest says that the woman’s story is completely different than the one told by Tajamaru and so different that her face did not even show the fierceness that Tajamaru talked about it. in the wife’s testimony, the woman plays the role of the victim. In other words, she is telling us that she was forced by the bandit. However, the medium, close and extreme shots do not demonstrate any sign that force was used to rape her, which demonstrates that she is lying because she does not have any blows in her face and body. When it comes to rapes, most of the time, there is violence, but in this case, there is no blood or blows involve. In her version, the suicide of her husband present the pain and how devastated was the rape of the woman. The one says that she failed to kill herself, which proves that her vision is a lie because after being raped most of women prefer to commit suicides than continue living. Therefore, she does a magnificent job in persuading the court that she is the victim because her face demonstrates humiliation that she has been raped. As a result, in her testimony, the woman only shares the information that protect her own interest, making herself weak, humiliated and