Rashomon (1950)

Takashi Shimura: Woodcutter

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• Woodcutter : You selfish...

  Commoner : What's wrong with that? Dogs are better off in this world. If you're not selfish, you can't survive.

  Woodcutter : Damn it. Everyone is selfish and dishonest. Making excuses. The bandit, the woman, the man, and you!

• Woodcutter : I'm the one who should be ashamed. I don't understand my own soul.

• Priest : It's horrifying. If men don't trust each other, this earth might as well be hell.

  Commoner : That's right. The world's a kind of hell.

  Priest : No! I believe in men. I don't want this place to be hell.

  Commoner : Shouting doesn't help. Think about it. Out of these three, whose story is believable?

  Woodcutter : No idea.

  Commoner : In the end, you cannot understand the things men do.

• Woodcutter : I don't understand. I just don't understand. I don't understand it at all. I just don't understand.

• Woodcutter : It's a lie. It's all a lie. Tajômaru's story and the woman's.

  Commoner : It's human nature to lie. Most of the time we can't even be honest with ourselves.

  Priest : That may be. But it's because men are weak that they lie, even to themselves.

  Commoner : Not another sermon. I don't care if it's a lie, as long as it's entertaining. What story did the woman come up with?

  Priest : Well, it's completely different from Tajômaru's story. So different that her face didn't even show the fierceness he spoke of. She was so docile, she was almost pitiful.