Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 88 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Japan
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- In Japanese — subtitles on.
The story
Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.
- dying and death
- japan
- samurai
- rape
- court case
- court
- truth
- rain
- woodcutter
- subjectivity
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Minoru Chiaki — Priest
- Kichijirō Ueda — Commoner
- Noriko Honma — Medium
- Daisuke Katō — Policeman
- Directed
- Akira Kurosawa
- Written
- Shinobu Hashimoto, Akira Kurosawa
Production
- Studio
- Daiei Film
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
