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 ).

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 ).

* Rashomon a play composed by the famous Thai writer and politician Kukrit Pramoj, based on Kurosawa's film

" Genesis as Rashomon: The creation as told by God and man.

The film is based on two stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa — (" Rashomon " provides the setting, while " In a Grove " provides the characters and plot ).

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 ( film ), a 1950 Japanese film directed by Akira Kurosawa, based on two stories by Akutagawa

* 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 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

* Rashomon directed by Akira Kurosawa

Toshirō Mifune in Rashomon ( film ) | Rashomon, a 1950 film by Japanese director Akira Kurosawa, that depicts four 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.

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.

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, 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.

The producers and writers have cited All the President's Men, Three Days of the Condor, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Rashomon, The Thing, The Boys from Brazil, The Silence of the Lambs, and JFK as influences on the series.

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.

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.

* Focus on Rashomon ( hardcover ).

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 ).

The 1964 remake of W. Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage was a failure, as was The Outrage ( 1964 ), director Martin Ritt's remake of Akira Kurosawa's classic Rashomon, despite the presence of Paul Newman.

Commonly this motif is presented as different points of view revolving around a central ( but sometimes unknowable ) " truth ", the seminal example being Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon.

" The Dialectic of Light and Darkness in Kurosawa's Rashomon ".

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 ).

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.

Akira Kurosawa's 1950 Rashomon does this in the most celebrated fictional use of contested multiple testimonies.

* Rashomon ( film )

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.

* Rashomon effect, a psychological effect named after the film

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.