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What is Rashomon?
What is Rashomon?
- A 1950 Italian film directed by Federico Fellini.
- A 1950 Japanese film directed by Akira Kurosawa (correct)
- A 1950 American film directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
- A 1950 French film directed by Francois Truffaut.
What is the plot of Rashomon?
What is the plot of Rashomon?
- A war movie set in Japan.
- A psychological thriller-crime based on Ryunosuke Akutagawa's short story "In a Grove". (correct)
- A comedy about samurais.
- A love story set in a forest.
What is the Rashomon effect?
What is the Rashomon effect?
- A psychological phenomenon where people remember things differently.
- A type of traditional Japanese dance
- A film technique where various characters provide subjective and contradictory versions of the same incident. (correct)
- A type of Japanese sword used by samurais.
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- Rashomon is a 1950 Japanese film directed by Akira Kurosawa.
- The film is a psychological thriller-crime based on Ryunosuke Akutagawa's short story "In a Grove".
- The plot revolves around the murder of a samurai in a forest.
- The film uses a plot device where various characters provide subjective and contradictory versions of the same incident.
- Rashomon won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1951.
- It was the first Japanese film to receive significant international recognition.
- It received an Academy Honorary Award at the 24th Academy Awards in 1952.
- The film is considered one of the greatest films ever made.
- The Rashomon effect is named after the film.
- The film stars Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyō, Masayuki Mori, and Takashi Shimura.
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