How Does Kurosawa Use Lighting In Rashomon

The Effects of Lighting: An Analysis of Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon

Akira Kurosawa’s film Rashomon is about how humanity cannot be honest with

themselves. The film technique that I focus on is lighting. Through the sketch, the

lighting is different from the original scene suggests telling a different meaning on what

is happening to the samurai.

The first panel in the sketch the lighting is dark, suggests an ill omen. The lighting

from the first panel differs from the original because the original scene was brighter. The

original scene the lighting suggests that the samurai is confused and struggling on what to

do next. The lighting in the …show more content…
The second panel in the sketch the lighting of the dagger is dark, symbolizes a desire

for power. The lighting of the dagger was brighter in the original scene than the second

panel in the sketch. In the original scene the dagger was bright representing a ray of hope

for the samurai. The dagger was the item that caught the samurai’s attention, giving him

confidence to rise up. In the second panel in the sketch you can see that the samurai is

bright and that the dagger is dark. The contrast of lighting differ between the samurai and the dagger shows how the samurai desire for power to change himself from being bright

to dark. An example would be how good guys want more power, which lead them turning

to bad guys. A perfect example would be how Namor the Sub-Mariner turned from being

good to bad during the Incursion issue. Namor was starting to turn bad during the

incursion when two planets collide. Too protect Atlantis from the incursion to happen.

There was a scroll that had the power to destroy an entire planet. The scroll was emitting

an intense aura that attracted Namor. Namor use the scroll, which destroyed the