22. Kurosawa and Rashomon

MIT The Film Experience, Fall 2013 View the complete course: Instructor: David Thorburn Kurosawa’s Rashomon demonstrates film’s emergence as an international medium and fully-recognized art form. The lecture highlights connections to modernism and Japanese theater traditions, and summarizes the film’s key stylistic and structural features. 00:00 OCW Intro 00:20 The “moment“ of Rashomon 11:03 Japanese Cinema: a note 18:18 Kurosawa’s career 23:45 Rashomon License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at More courses at