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Rashomon and film
* Rashomon ( film )
A variant of this device is a flashback within a flashback, which was notably used by the Japanese film Rashomon ( 1950 ), based on the Japanese novel In a Grove ( 1921 ).
The film is based on two stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa — (" Rashomon " provides the setting, while " In a Grove " provides the characters and plot ).
In his essay " Rashomon ", Tadao Sato suggests that the film ( unusually ) uses sunlight to symbolize evil and sin in the film, arguing that the wife gives in to the bandit's desires when she sees the sun.
Stanley Kauffman writes in The Impact of Rashomon that Kurosawa often shot a scene with several cameras at the same time, so that he could " cut the film freely and splice together the pieces which have caught the action forcefully, as if flying from one piece to another.
Later film and TV uses of the " Rashomon effect " focus on revealing " the truth " in a now conventional technique that presents the final version of a story as the truth, an approach that only matches Kurosawa's film on the surface.
* Rashomon ( play ), a 1959 play written by Fay Kanin and Michael Kanin, based on the film, and a 2000 play written by Meena Natarajan and Pham Luu and based on Akutagawa's short story
* Rashomon effect, a psychological effect named after the film
* Rashomon ( opera ), a 1997 opera composed by Alejandro Viñao, based on Kurosawa's film
* Rashomon a play composed by the famous Thai writer and politician Kukrit Pramoj, based on Kurosawa's film
Akira Kurosawa's film Rashomon ( 1950 ), takes only its name and some of the material for the frame scenes, such as the theft of a kimono and the discussion of the moral ambiguity of thieving to survive, from this story.
Modern writers too have adapted tales from the Konjaku Monogatarishū: a famous example is Akutagawa Ryūnosuke's In a Grove ( well known in the West from Kurosawa's film Rashomon ).
Toshirō Mifune in Rashomon ( film ) | Rashomon, a 1950 film by Japanese director Akira Kurosawa, that depicts four contradictory accounts of a rape and murder.
Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon ( 1950 ), the first Japanese film to be widely screened in the West, depicts four witnesses ' contradictory accounts of a rape and murder.
( The film Rashomon explains this by having the Woodcutter later admit to stealing the dagger, but this confession is not present in the original story.
* A Tamil film Andha Naal ( 1954 ) was inspired by Rashomon starring the legendary actor Sivaji Ganesan.
However, the plot and the resolution starkly differs from Rashomon making the film a whodunnit murder mystery set in 1945.
Ritt's 1964 film The Outrage, is an American retelling of the Kurosawa film Rashomon, and stars Laurence Harvey, Paul Newman, Claire Bloom, Edward G. Robinson, Howard Da Silva, and William Shatner.

Rashomon and ),
Some of the most critically acclaimed drama films in Asian cinema were produced during the 1950s, including Yasujirō Ozu's Tokyo Story ( 1953 ), Kenji Mizoguchi's Ugetsu ( 1954 ), Satyajit Ray's The Apu Trilogy ( 1955 – 1959 ), Guru Dutt's Pyaasa ( 1957 ), and the Akira Kurosawa films Rashomon ( 1950 ), Ikiru ( 1952 ) and Seven Samurai ( 1954 ).
Many of the most critically acclaimed Asian films of all time were produced during this decade, including Yasujirō Ozu's Tokyo Story ( 1953 ), Satyajit Ray's The Apu Trilogy ( 1955 – 1959 ) and The Music Room ( 1958 ), Kenji Mizoguchi's Ugetsu ( 1954 ) and Sansho the Bailiff ( 1954 ), Raj Kapoor's Awaara ( 1951 ), Mikio Naruse's Floating Clouds ( 1955 ), Guru Dutt's Pyaasa ( 1957 ) and Kaagaz Ke Phool ( 1959 ), and the Akira Kurosawa films Rashomon ( 1950 ), Ikiru ( 1952 ), Seven Samurai ( 1954 ) and Throne of Blood ( 1957 ).
During Japanese cinema's ' Golden Age ' of the 1950s, successful films included Rashomon ( 1950 ), Seven Samurai ( 1954 ) and The Hidden Fortress ( 1958 ) by Akira Kurosawa, as well as Yasujirō Ozu's Tokyo Story ( 1953 ) and Ishirō Honda's Godzilla ( 1954 ).
Rashomon was also remade as The Outrage ( 1964 ), and inspired films with " Rashomon effect " storytelling methods, such as Andha Naal ( 1954 ), The Usual Suspects ( 1995 ) and Hero ( 2002 ).
The decade started with Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon ( 1950 ), which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and marked the entrance of Japanese cinema onto the world stage.
Yasujirō Ozu directed Good Morning ( 1959 ) and Floating Weeds ( 1958 ), which was adapted from his earlier silent A Story of Floating Weeds ( 1934 ), and was shot by Rashomon / Sansho the Bailiff cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa.
" In the following years, similar awards were given to seven other films: one from Italy ( The Bicycle Thief ), two from France ( Monsieur Vincent and Forbidden Games ), three from Japan ( Rashomon, Gate of Hell and Samurai, The Legend of Musashi ), as well as a Franco-Italian co-production ( The Walls of Malapaga ).

Rashomon and 1950
Rashomon, which premiered in Tokyo in August 1950, and which also starred Mifune, became, on September 10, 1951, the surprise winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and was subsequently released in Europe and North America.
In the Sight & Sound directors ' poll, it was voted at number ten in 1992 and number nine in 2002, in both cases being tied with Kurosawa's own Rashomon ( 1950 ).
* 1950 Rashomon
Miyagawa is best known for his tracking shots, particularly those in Rashomon ( 1950 ), the first of his three collaborations with preeminent filmmaker Akira Kurosawa.
His roles include the doctor in Drunken Angel ( 1948 ), the veteran detective in Stray Dog ( 1949 ), the flawed lawyer in Scandal ( 1950 ), the woodcutter in Rashomon ( 1950 ), the mortally ill bureaucrat in Ikiru ( 1952 ), and the lead samurai Kambei in Seven Samurai ( 1954 ).
* Rashomon ( 1950 )
Akira Kurosawa's 1950 Rashomon does this in the most celebrated fictional use of contested multiple testimonies.
Orson Welles ' Citizen Kane ( 1941 ) — influenced structurally by The Power and the Glory ( 1933 ) — and Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon ( 1950 ) use a non-chronological flashback narrative that is often labeled nonlinear.

Rashomon and Japanese
Japanese cinema reached its zenith with films from director Akira Kurosawa including Rashomon, Ikiru, Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood, and The Hidden Fortress.
Japanese poster for Rashomon
In a collection of interpretations of Rashomon, Donald Richie writes that " the confines of ' Japanese ' thought could not contain the director, who thereby joined the world at large ".
In the 21st century, Richie provided audio commentaries for The Criterion Collection on DVDs of various classic Japanese films, notably those of Ozu ( A Story of Floating Weeds and Early Summer ), Mikio Naruse ( When a Woman Ascends the Stairs ), and Kurosawa ( Drunken Angel, Rashomon, The Lower Depths, and The Bad Sleep Well ), among others.

Rashomon and directed
* Rashomon directed by Akira Kurosawa

Rashomon and by
" Genesis as Rashomon: The creation as told by God and man.
Due to its emphasis on the subjectivity of truth and the uncertainty of factual accuracy, Rashomon has been read by some as an allegory of the defeat of Japan at the end of World War II.
* Rashomon Gate: A Mystery of Ancient Japan, a 2002 novel written by I. J. Parker
* Rashomon ( album ), an album by Taiwanese singer Show Luo in 2010
The Rashomon effect is the effect of the subjectivity of perception on recollection, by which observers of an event are able to produce substantially different but equally plausible accounts of it.
It is named for Akira Kurosawa's film Rashomon, in which a crime witnessed by four individuals is described in four mutually contradictory ways.
Reminiscent of Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon, it explores the human complexities and moral murkiness of war through multiple perspectives and flashbacks surrounding the unintended murder of an alleged Serb smuggler by three Croatian soldiers returning from the front in Karlovac.
When Tsuna arrived in Rashomon Gate he was attacked by Ibaraki.

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