Reel Life review: ‘Rashomon’

Akira Kurosawa’s 1950 drama introduced modern Japanese cinema and changed the vocabulary of the movies around the world. This story about the tenuous nature of perception – a rape and murder are interpreted differently by four witnesses – has probably been remade and ripped-off as much as “Psycho.” A restored version of Kurosawa’s classic opens Friday October 16 at the Music Box in Chicago. (Read more…) Rated: NR (mature audiences only). 88 minutes.

Opens Friday, October 16 at the Music Box in Chicago.

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