Movie Review

Rashomon

The brilliance of ‘Rashomon,’ in a new print

Machiko Kyo and Toshiro Mifune in “Rashomon,’’ the 1951 classic that opened the door to Asian filmmaking. (Daiei/Kobal Collection)

By Ty Burr

Globe Staff / April 23, 2010

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You can be forgiven for thinking you’ve seen “Rashomon,’’ even if you haven’t. Sixty years after its release, so completely has the “Rashomon concept’’ of subjective narrative — of a story’s truth depending on the person who’s telling it — infiltrated the culture that sitcoms no longer even use it for parody. What Akira Kurosawa and his tiny production team ... (Full article: 527 words)