Our English teacher got to let us see this movie and I enjoyed the hell out of it but I was severely annoyed by everyone else’s ignorance while they were watching it. 1 kid even asked why the movie was in Black & White.

The theory falls apart at minute 16:00 with the sky at the back of the woodcutter which by this theory, he was telling the truth when at the end he finally admitted to the kimono thief that he didnt want to get involved and thus had lied.

Love this! Looking forward to watching more of Kurosawa's work! And yours as well!:)

It's a pleasure to watch and listen to a great mind unravel the work of another great mind.

Totally enthralling story breakdown, feeling enlightened.

Man, this was a good video. I learned a lot from it. Plus it helped me to appreciate the work of a great artist even more.

Excellent video! This further establishes Kurosawa as a master of his craft.

the woodcutter didnt understand because each one told a different story from another and he felt guilty because he'd witnessed everything but he'd chosen to say nothing.

There is no power like the power of knowledge. Thanks for sharing yours.

Impeccable work bro. Keep gng

Thank you for this detail beautiful explanation.❤️

Next level film analysis. I love this movie and this is now an essential companion piece.

Can you make a video to show the difference between a good filmmaker and a bad filmmaker or an average filmmaker and what makes a movie masterpiece

Great video. Every time I watch one of your videos, it makes me want to revisit all these films. Then I feel sad because there's not enough time to rewatch all the great movies and watch all the great movies I haven't yet seen.

Amazing work!

A-M-A-Z-I-N-G analysis. Thanks so much

Thanks for helping me settle my nerves. I believe your analysis is correct.

This is my favorite film theory and practice channel! :D :D :D

Excellent video!

that was amazing it makes me want to watch Rashomon once again. Great job once again man

what i get from my first viewing, is that the whole movie has 5 prospectives which are of respective visions of the same accident and how they believe, what was exactly happened by considering their own understanding. There is only one situation which is broken down to 5 self interpretations and compiled as a film. As we are offered all this scenarios, we try to make sense of the mystery. Apart from seeing deep into the symbolism, Truth, Lies and what is the complete story or closer to the mystery, I was more curious and concerned about the essence of the whole story. It is important to know how it was shown or what techniques Kurosawa used. But what did the script really meant to him? And what was he trying to convey through this structure is equally important in my opinion. May be i think he was just trying to show, how humans absorb and believe only what they want to and thinks only for themselves. And he did this beautifully. Great Video by the way, helped me a lot in understanding how elements are used in plotting.

Amazing, I wish we have more content like this. Kurosawa was a master.

Akira Kurusawa was simply Genius. Sasa Sanjuro the Yojimbo is an excellent example.

Great video! I love these analysis you do... Rashomon is surely one of my favourites movies, and Kurosawa is my favourite director. I've decided not to watch the video fully. I would like to study the film myself and try solving the mystery. Then I will check if our conclusion is the same!! Thank you for inspiring our curiosity on movies!!

Very good explanation

Brilliant. Thanks!

Thanks. It was worth efforts.

Great video

This is brilliant. Can you please tell me where the clips from 1.33 to 1.50 come from? Thanks!

Please upload the cinematography techniques and meanings behind Akira kurosawa's 'Dersu Uzala'

Rain in Shintoism is not a trap but believed to incarnate purity and simplicity. One must use Asian metaphors to decipher Asian films. And the biggest thing overlooked was THE BABY. It was the woman’s. She left it there when she went ‘hiding’ in the temple.

It seems to me, the woodcutter wen't to the samurai twice: - after the fight, he wen't to scavenge something interesting ... he focused on the shiny knife and really wanted it. Then he saw the samurai ... and realized he is still alive, and ran in panic. - after a while .. the woodcutter returned, (not really knowing why ...) and found the death samurai. He pulled the knifes out, and went to tell his story. He was probably ashamed, as his actions were only motivated for taking the knife (money). And he had a real opportunity to save a live. He realize this at the end scene also ... the 3rd person steals the kimono ... and the woodcutter saves a live. And he gets his closure

I was wondering if the bow and arrow that the husband carries in the beginning is linked with the thief’s arrows in him when he is found. It seems too obvious for it to be a coincidence

Thank you very much Now I learned How To See a Film

Great video, very nice to see City of God in that context, love that movie.

Great analysis! You mentioned that you directed a mystery film. What was it?

Brilliant video. that is all.

Amazing video man!!

When I watched the movie I thought the woodcutter was telling the truth to wrap up the story and he feels guilty merely because he stole the dagger. And yes, your explanation fits the "Rashomon" better since the truth has never been found out in the movie. This analysis is really mind blowing, thank you wolfcrow!

Very good video

knew u were legit the moment u showed chungking express, amazing film

could you also do an amazing video like this one for Tschelowek's kinoapparatom? Would love it!

You need way more subs

Nice interpretation

I absolutely adore Akira Kurusawa, and as for Rashomon I honestly couldn't tell you the amount of times I've watched this film. With all honesty had I seen it every day of my adult life I could never had clearly worked out the intended truth, I believe this to be possibly the best explanation I could find. My theory was it the wife who murdered her husband and not the bandit, she couldn't face the rejection after she was raped... Outstanding film maker who knew how to keep you glued to the screen.

Could you make a short on the APU-trilogy? Or any other Parallel Cinema movie?

Man this movie was amazing incredible fantastic

Today I learned: "Porn has no right to be boring" - Wolfcrow Will you do a series on how you would improve production quality of the adult film industry next please?

With Ur help the movie is now more clear sareesh . Thanks .

Very ingenious analysis. A read a few and don't recall anyone else noting the sky thing (although I'd have to watch for myself to make sure that works). You really should have a link above directly to the Rashomon materials instead of just a link to the main page; it was a pain to find them. You should also say that they're locked behind a paywall.

What was the movie or commercial with the girl holding a coke? I need to know looks like my vibe summed up

Can you please make an elaborate explanation of the works by MAYA DEREN btw , this vedio was brilliant

the quentissential rubik's cube of art moviemaking! have you found the answers? and/or are we meant to know life's answer(s)? thanks for paying tribute.

Nice Video, Rashomon is brilliant all I agree. "The oscar category for Best Foreign film was introduced because of Rashomon?". Really?, that's too much of a praise to give without any backup. Special/Honorary Award for best foreign film have been given by Academy since 1947.

The very few who mentioned Ray's Panther Panchali.

Great video keep it up

what movie is that at 4:25?

Incredible insight. A reminder of how intricately visual a medium cinema is- warrants for yet another viewing of the master work.

Sky in shintoism represents thought, creative energy or thinking...like coming up with a lie. And dont forget Tajamoru was shot with arrows at the river with mention of SEVENTEEN arrows of EAGLE feather. Eagles in Japan is symbol of nature’s great power, perhaps the western ‘karma’. But why 17 arrows? More to think about

Truth is unknowable.

Rashomon is one of my all time favorite movies but I've never understood why each character claims responsibility for the murder. If you are going to lie, why not shift the blame off of yourself?

I hate being asked questions but I still sit in the front because my eyesight is complete trash

I think Kurosawa never intended the story to be resolvable. There is no answer and we cannot work it out from the movie.

Interested in your thoughts about Tarkovsky given rule #1.

The biggest fault I find with this video is that you fail to acknowledge that the stories that are the basis of this film are not actually Kurosawa's. Akutagawa Ryunosuke wrote the original Rashomon and In a Bamboo Grove in the 1913 and 1921. Also, both of those stories are based off much older tales from Konjaku Monogatari, which is some 900 years old!

If youre trying to solve the mystery, you're missing a very key element. This entire story is told by the woodcutter to the traveler seeking shelter from the rain. The movie is the woodcutter retelling the story of the testimony. Its revealed the Woodcutter lied at the end (twice) so rhe entire story can't be believed. In fact, all the stereotypes that are enforced in the respective stories is the woodcutter reinforcing them. That is why he has no faith in humanity until he has that realization that he's not so above it all and had the testimony filtered out through his own biases. His disgust in humanity was very likely aomething he made up.

Best film ever.

13:40 lol

5:39 that gave me a little heart attack

The husband was injured but didn't die. He crawled to the dagger and then laid down to die. The wood cutter slowly emerged to steal the dagger, and when he picked it up the husband woke up and went to grab him. The wood cutter in a freight stabbed the husband and that is why he doesn't understand his own soul and feels ashamed. That's my theory.

The only truth on that movie is the death of a man. This movie is my top1 movie of all time.

The question I have is if the wife wasn't unloyal to her husband like the dead samurai's story reflects, why did she embrace the bandit and stop resisting him from raping her

Excellent video. However, other than few Indian directors like Mani kaul , Ray, Ritwik Ghatak who made excellent art movies in the 20th century. ... Can you name me some Indian Art film of the last decade that you actually enjoyed, and think a film student should definitely check?

Actually, what really destroys a real great work of art pictures, is the distractions by Commercial cuts and lenghy at that. Especially when it happens to black and white movie classics.

So who did it? Where is it shown in the video? Did i miss it? Who killed him? I would judge bandit for kiling him and since no other evidence and we cant disprove testemonys based on whats found we can only tel that more people are lying in court but canot say who and probably someone is crazy since their testemonies are lies for no reason or bad lies (for exmaple wife couldhave kiled him, bandit lied coz he wil be judged anyways since hes bandit and woodcuter could lie for example coz some interaction hapend between them and he liked her or whatever, and 3rd testemony of ghost dead is just non evidence). Btw if bandit didnt confes he might actualy not get sentenced for this crime since only 2 people that sas they saw what hapend are teling diferent stories, then there would be longer trial, they could comeup with that stolen dager if someone cares about it and someone might change their testemony but since woodcuter didnt get involved in trial now their left with only 2 stories which means they should judge only bandit for that crime no matter if he did it or not coz he confesed.

“You don’t have the right to bore your audience” yeah ok say that to Andrei tarvosky, Bella tar, Kubrick, etc 🤣

Well, frankly i disagree and agree with Abbas Kiarostami. Sometimes the film goers should have their right to sleep in between the films. Cheers✌🏼

I just thought again about a tale, a carpenter adopts a kid. Always when I looked to the sky, I said, I don't know. And that is truth. The police are the bandits who kill the kid. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/otuFoJxnttKno2Q.html

They all lied. Even the ghost.

Close, but not quite correct. Firstly, the samurai was never injured in a fight. He didn't have multiple wounds, and even the court understood the wound wasn't consistent with a sword, but rather a dagger which is why the lord asks about a dagger. The Samurai didn't kill himself, his wife murdered him over his callous attitude towards her. The bandit is lying to protect her, the woodcutter is lying because he stole the dagger, the medium/samurai are lying to save face. (Or more likely, the medium is just being dramatic for the court.) The woodcutter did NOT witness the event itself. He pieced together a story that let him off the hook for lying. The biggest clues are the "tableau" of each story. What is each one about? The bandit's story is a bunch of bragging, and admiration for the woman. The woman's story is that she was traumatized and lost her shit. The medium/samurai's story is all about demonizing his wife, and saving face. The woodcutter's story is about empathizing with the woman's situation and justifying his decision to withhold crucial evidence. (And there's a good chance the samurai was still alive when he pulled the dagger out.)

I haven't watched Rashomon in a while so I am going to skip on the explanation. Now on the boredom part . I highly disagree with that. What constitutes as boring is highly subjective and is very contrary to what art is trying to archive. An artwork like a movie can be boring from the untrained to the the trained eye, but there is objectives greatness to be found that does not give a damn if someone is bored. Are Bèla Tarr's movies boring to most, yes, but aren't they great?

You didn't understand a thing about this movie. It has nothing to do with who killed the man...

What if the baby was a result of the rape?

Ooooh noes... I understand nothing anymore.

25 minutes... Dont have time 4 this.. pls make it short.

This film isn't a murder mystery nor an exploration about the nature of truth.