What is the listed running time of Kurosawa's Rashomon?

The listed running time of Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon is 88 minutes.

Rashomon is a compact 1950 Japanese period drama, or jidaigeki, directed by Kurosawa from a screenplay co-written with Shinobu Hashimoto. Its brief running time is used for the standard film listing and refers to the released feature as catalogued in major film references.

The movie moves between testimony from several characters who describe the same violent incident in contradictory ways. Despite its short length, it introduced a remarkably influential narrative structure: one event is repeatedly reconstructed from different points of view, with no account fully settling the truth.

Some databases may show slightly different durations for restored prints, censored versions, re-releases, or regional presentations. Those variations do not change the standard listed runtime used for the film’s principal reference entry. The canonical quiz answer is therefore 88 minutes, not one of the longer times offered as distractors.