Rashomon released
1950 · Work
Kurosawa's film of contradictory testimonies; brought Japanese cinema to the West.
On these timelines: Japan, Arts and Thoughts, Master
More from Japan
- Meiji Restoration (1868)
- Edo period (1603)
- Commodore Perry opens Japan (1853)
- Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543)
- Battle of Sekigahara (1600)
- VJ Day / surrender of Japan (1945)
- Kamakura shogunate established (1192)
- Oda Nobunaga (1534)
Around 1950
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- The Beatles (1960)
- The Holocaust (1941)
- Founding of the State of Israel (1948)
- Cold War (1947)
- Korean War (1950)
- D-Day (Operation Overlord) (1944)
- Pop music: the 1960s (1960)
- Pop music: the 1950s (1950)
- Pop music: the 1940s (1940)