Rashomon

Vintage Japanese poster for Rashomon, featuring a fierce samurai in tattered green clothing holding a sword, with a distressed woman in a pink kimono clinging to his arm. The background includes bold red Japanese characters for the title and vertical black text alongside the actors’ names and director Akira Kurosawa’s credits.

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Lead Actors: Toshirō Mifune, Machiko Kyō, Takashi Shimura

Release Year: 1950

IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042876/

Podcast Episode: Episode 011: I’m Going to Fast Forward to the Last Person’s Testimony—Rashomon (1950)/Knives Out (2019) with Celeste Pilegard

Psychology Concepts: Cognitive Psychology, eyewitness testimony, Memory, memory errors, memory fallible, motivated memory, Rashomon effect