Rashomon Comparison

In Akira Kurosawa’s film “Sanshiro Sugata” (1943) it follows a young man who wants to learn the ways of Judo, but instead he goes on to learn more about himself. Even though this film had scenes that were taken away from it, because of the censorship the government placed on cinema during that wartime in japan. It shows what ability Kurosawa had in telling a story in way that would make audience think. There are five major fight sequences in this that repentant the traces of the moral growth of the protagonist. As the film goes on you can tell that the protagonist character becomes more selflessness. The film begins in 1882 on a small narrow road where we see Sanshiro going into a Shimmei-style Jujitsu instructor’s gym. The members of the plan to go and ambush Yano, who is the judo wrestler of the Shudokan, that night. They ambush Yano while on his taxi carriage. He quickly jumps away

In Rashomon (1950) we encounter four people who give different versions of a gruesome murder of a man and rape of his wife. In Ikiru (1952) we encounter a man who is internal sick. After he notice his sad life he barks on a journey to bring happiness to others by build a park. In both of the films the plot structure is similar to Hitchcock’s “Psycho”. The audience is given different narratives. In Rushamon we are given different stories told by first person narratives but not by a subjective. The way the camera is position in both films does not give us a clear answer on who is telling the story. In Rushamon when the woodcutter is walking in the forest and stumbles upon the dead body we are given multiple camera angels. When he is looking at the victim we are given a point of view shot of the corpse. Then we have a god’s-eye view of him running away from the corpse. But the majority of the film is in the position of the