Four stories. One Crime. No Truth. Experience Akira Kurosawa's trailblazing classic Rashomon on the big screen from Fri 6 Jan 2023. | BFI

Robert Altman on Rashomon (1950): “Rashomon is the most interesting of Kurosawa’s films for me. That and Throne of Blood. Those two stand out the most. Throne of Blood was more accessible because most non-Japanese audiences at least knew the basic story of Macbeth. Rashomon was more creative, because when one sees a film, you see the characters on screen. It’s not like reading, where you imagine certain things. You see very specific things. You see a tree, you see a sword. So one takes that as t