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Rashomon (Japanese: 羅生門, Hepburn: Rashōmon) [a] is a 1950 Japanese jidaigeki film directed by Akira Kurosawa from a screenplay he co-wrote with Shinobu Hashimoto. Starring Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyō, Masayuki Mori, and Takashi Shimura, it follows various people who describe how a samurai was murdered in a forest.
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 ]
Rashōmon (羅生門) is a short story by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa based on tales from the Konjaku Monogatarishū.. The story was first published in 1915 in Teikoku Bungaku. Akira Kurosawa's film Rashomon (1950) is in fact based primarily on another of Akutagawa's short stories, "In a Grove"; only the film's title and some of the material for the frame scenes, such as the theft of a kimono and the ...
Rashomon – adaptation by Philippe Cherbonnier (after Akutagawa), directed by Kwong Loke, Kumiko Mendl and David K.S. Tse for Yellow Earth Theatre Company, London UK and tour, (2001). Rashomon – a 1996 English language opera by London-based Argentine composer Alejandro Viñao , with libretto by Craig Raine.
Marker at site of Rashōmon, Kyoto. Rajōmon (羅城門), [1] also called Rashōmon (羅生門), was the gate built at the southern end of the monumental Suzaku Avenue in the ancient Japanese cities of Heijō-kyō and Heian-kyō (), in accordance with the Chinese grid-patterned city layout.
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 Outrage is a 1964 American Western film directed by Martin Ritt and starring Paul Newman, Laurence Harvey, Claire Bloom, Edward G. Robinson and William Shatner. [3]It is a remake of Akira Kurosawa's 1950 Japanese film Rashomon, based on stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, adapted to an American setting.
Rashomon is a 1950 Japanese film directed by Akira Kurosawa. Rashomon, Rashōmon or Rajōmon may also refer to: Arts and entertainment. Literature ...