Essays on Rashomon
In this essay, I will first explore the meaning and definition of the auteur theory. Furthermore, I will apply the auteur theory to the late Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa, consequently finding evidence of his authorship in two of his most famous films, Rashomon (Dir. Akira Kurosawa, 1950) and Seven Samurai (Dir. Akira Kurosawa, 1954). Because...
Rashomon is a film that questioning the human natures, which was released in 1950 when was 5 years later of being defeated in World War II. In that historical background, what Rashomon meant in that specific time and how the postwar society affected Rashomon are things that worth to concern. Although most of Rashomon’s writings...
Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon, which adopted the constantly changing camera movement mode, is one of the films that have the greatest impact on the development of tracking shots. The excellent zooming shots through the forest taken by Kurosawa may be the most amazing technological achievements of this film. It has to say that the scenes of...
The film Rashomon by Akira Kurosawa takes a different approach on film making. The film takes four unique viewpoints of the same event. However, the stories did not match each other, and this shows that everyone can translate an event in a special way. The place this took place in Kyoto, however the film almost...
Rashomon (1950) Video Analyzing Kurosawa asked by the Japanese studio Daiei to direct film for them after a Scandal. For this project of film Kurosawa select the story of film based on ‘In a Groove’ by Ryunosuke Akutogawa. With the Hashimoto Shinobu, Kurosawa want to write script for story on Rashomon. Because ‘ in a...
Rashomon is a Japanese movie which about a rape and murder in different versions in which it leads to the true meaning of the author, Akira Kurosawa, that wants to emphasize about the nature of truth and reality. This film creates the arguments of what the resolution or truth actually is, but is what makes...
