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Rashomon is a 1960 American television play based on a stage version of the 1950 Japanese film of the same name. It was directed by Sidney Lumet and aired as an episode of Play of the Week. [1] The story had been adapted on Broadway in 1959 starring Rod Steiger and Claire Bloom. Only Oskar Homolka returned from the Broadway production.
Rashomon is now considered one of the greatest films ever made and among the most influential movies from the 20th century. It pioneered the Rashomon effect, a plot device that involves various characters providing subjective, alternative, and contradictory versions of the same incident.
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Takashi Shimura (志村 喬, Shimura Takashi, March 12, 1905 – February 11, 1982) was a Japanese actor who appeared in over 200 films between 1934 and 1981. He appeared in 21 of Akira Kurosawa's 30 films (more than any other actor), including as a lead actor in Drunken Angel (1948), Rashomon (1950), Ikiru (1952) and Seven Samurai (1954). [3]
The title is a pun, [5] which involves the Rajōmon (羅城門) outer castle gate but Kanze changed it by using the kanji shō for "life" rather than the original jō for "castle" [6] [7] (note that 羅城門 was originally read raseimon and 生 can also be read as sei).
The Rashomon effect is the phenomenon of the unreliability of eyewitnesses. The effect is named after Akira Kurosawa 's 1950 Japanese film Rashomon , in which a murder is described in four contradictory ways by four witnesses. [ 1 ]
Tombstone Rashomon is a 2017 Western film directed by Alex Cox and starring Adam Newberry and Eric Schumacher. It tells the story of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone , Arizona Territory , from multiple differing perspectives in the style of Akira Kurosawa 's 1950 film Rashomon .
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