Akira Kurosawa's movie won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and an honorary Academy Award for best foreign-language film
's editor and founder, took a break from his rabid campaign of exposing entertainment industry communists to attend the Venice Film Festival. He was not impressed.
"Most of those sitting in on the awards may have been bought for a bottle of Chianti," he wrote in his Trade Views opinion column.Rashomon winning the Golden Lion. Akira Kurosawa's film, which told conflicting versions of four eyewitness accounts of a murder and a rape in 8th century Japan, had shaken the festival.
Six months after Venice, in March 1952, Kurosawa's masterpiece began playing at the Beverly Canon Theatre in Beverly Hills.had a look, and wrote in its review, "An intriguing film, both from academic and entertainment viewpoints,Not exactly wildly enthusiastic, but 10 days after the review was published, the film was given an honorary Oscar for best foreign-language film. went on to set box office records for a subtitled film.
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