The husband, the wife… or the bandit?
Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.
CrimeDramaMysterydying and deathjapansamurairapecourt casecourttruthrainwoodcuttersubjectivitymediumsunlight
- Sexual violence
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Character
Earnest, grave, prestige and intimate.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- intimateepic
- rawmeticulous
Who loves it, who doesn't
18 profiled raters. Loved most by The Prestige Hunters; disliked most by The Sinceres.
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Cast
- Toshirō MifuneTajômaru
- Machiko KyōMasako
- Takashi ShimuraWoodcutter
- Masayuki MoriTakehiro
- Minoru ChiakiPriest
- Kichijirō UedaCommoner
- Noriko HonmaMedium
- Daisuke KatōPoliceman
Crew
- Akira KurosawaDirector
- Shinobu HashimotoScreenplay
- Akira KurosawaScreenplay
- Ryūnosuke AkutagawaNovel
- Kazuo MiyagawaDirector of Photography
- Fumio HayasakaOriginal Music Composer
- Akira KurosawaEditor
- Jingo MinouraProducer
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Recommendations from TMDB. Opening one adds it to Curator Co.
