Friday, February 14, 6:15 p.m. & Wednesday, February 26, 6:00 p.m. | “We all want to forget something, so we tell stories. It's easier that way.” In Akira Kurosawa’s landmark film—which introduced many Western audiences to Japanese cinema (and to the superb actor Toshiro Mifune, Kurosawa’s longtime collaborator) and for which the “Rashomon effect” is named—under a downpour, three people: a priest, a woodcutter, and a commoner, recount their perspectives of a terrible crime. Kurosawa’s mastery is on full display, as he achieves a rhythmic, hypnotic pace to tell a story of truth, memory, and morality. RASHOMON is essential viewing and some of the best 88 minutes ever projected on screen.

Awards & Nominations

Winner - Golden Lion, Venice Film Festival
Nominee - Best Art Direction, Academy Awards

Persistence of Memory: Ten films (poetically, all quite memorable) that explore recollection, unreliable narrators and amnesiatic protagonists, ghosts real and imagined, the way others remember us (ouch), and the coming to terms with that, as much as we try to hold on to them, as time passes our memories shift and slip away. Read more

The Film Center is ADA accessible. This presentation will be projected without open captions. The theater is hearing-loop equipped. For accessibility requests, please email filmcenter@saic.edu