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Rashomon (1950) ✦ Full-Length Watchalong Reaction (Patreon)

Published:
2026-01-11 05:30:02
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2026-01-12 16:19:42
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2026-08
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Our second foreign film of the week! Enjoy the reaction and I'm looking forward to your comments!

✦ KL

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Rashomon (1950) ✦ Full-Length Watchalong Reaction

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Jon Johns

Wow!! This is exciting!!! I believe this film inspired so many writers and directors afterward. I dove deep into this film in the 1990's, finding out what it's 'source' was. Turns out, it's loosely based upon two short 'stories', often translated as 'fables'. I read both translated stories, and the film is fairly faithful to them. Kurosawa is one of my favorite directors. He tells stories, and does it with grace & patience.

Vincent Hollow

This was a fun watch, especially with the bandit, Tajômaru, being a real-life Looney Tunes character. That guy was having a time. 😅

Steve Mercier

This is one of those movies that if you admit to loving, certain people accuse you of being pretentious or just straight up lying...but screw those people. This movie is so ridiculously good that it managed to inspire countless moviemakers, screenwriters, and storytellers the whole world over, as well as creating entire sub-genres of stories about perception and point of view that continue to this day. Give me a good old fashioned Akira Kurosawa flick over Michael Bay and Roland Emmerich any day. Oh...and also, I'm really looking forward to watching this with you (sorry if this came off as butthurt).

Crimson Ace

Thank you, KL, for a wonderful reaction. I loved that you took time at the end to familiarize yourself with the influence, and also read the synopsis to see where you hit and what you might have missed. When you said something like, "It seems like they're each telling a version that makes them look the best," I smiled from ear to ear. That observation is the difference between watching a movie and experiencing a movie. Big hi-five! :)

Tyler Foster

FYI, you go there eventually, but "Rashomon effect" is linked in the last paragraph of the opening of the Rashomon film wiki that you read from. I know in recent reactions you've had some issues and may be a little anxious about foreign parts of movies not being subtitled, I will say that many Japanese films have lengthy opening credits that they simply don't bother to translate (and in contemporary movies, the end credits scroll is not generally translated). I am not sure what went into that decision, to only translate a portion of the opening credits, although I guess it's true that aside from the actors and some key creatives, like Kurosawa, anyone watching the film with subtitles is probably less likely to remember those names (and the potential challenge of translating them fast enough to keep up with the movie). For your next Kurosawa, I would recommend Drunken Angel (1948) -- a short movie (98m) -- or High and Low (1963) -- a long movie (143m) -- to see him working in a different milieu (although I won't be more specific than that).