Use in Movies
| Film | Comments |
| Andha Naal | The Tamil film was inspired by the 1950 Akira Kurosawa film Rashômon. However, in contrast to Rashômon, the film's climax provides a solution to the murder using an Indian proverb as a vital clue |
| Ghost Dog | Louie and Ghost Dog have different accounts of the circumstances of their meeting, and the book Rashomon is featured in the film. |
| The Woman in Question | Five people give different accounts of the same incidents that took place before a murder. Though a perfect Rashomon Effect is not achieved, the film tries to depict how the narration by one person can entirely window-dress facts, revealed only by another's narration. |
| Hero | The film relates the different accounts of how the protagonist, the Nameless swordsman, killed three of the Qin emperor's assassins and is allowed to dine close to him as a reward. The story then reveals the three assassins' deaths as apparent sacrifices to let the Nameless swordsman, who is also intending to kill the emperor, to get within striking range of the emperor. |
| Hoodwinked! | The film is an animated re-telling of the classic Little Red Riding Hood story. In this story, everyone - Red Puckett, Granny Puckett, the Wolf and the Woodsman, tells the police their view of what really happened in regards to the events in question. To help this, the story opens in medias res. |
| Tucker & Dale vs. Evil | Based on their preconceptions toward a couple of "hillbillies", a group of judgmental college kids continue to feel they are under attack by the pair as unfortunate events in the film take place. The "hillbillies" are blind to how the kids are seeing the events and see the kids reactions as some crazy unexplainable actions of their own. The film displays a humorously clear example of the rashomon effect for the viewer. |
| Vantage Point | An attempted assassination of the President of the United States is shown through the experiences of eight strangers who witnessed the events. |
| Virumaandi | The Tamil film written and directed by, and starring Kamal Haasan. The film revolves around two criminals, Virumaandi (Kamal Haasan) and Kothala Thevar (Pasupathy), being interviewed. They express how they feel about the direction their lives have taken and how they have ended up where they are. This could very well be the simplest form of the Rashomon effect. |
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