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 ).

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 effect, a psychological effect named after the film

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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 ).

He is best known for his 16-film collaboration with filmmaker Akira Kurosawa, from 1948 to 1965, in works such as Rashomon, Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood, and Yojimbo.

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

Rashomon introduced Kurosawa and the cinema of Japan to Western audiences, albeit to a small number of theatres, and is considered one of his masterpieces.

Use of contrasting shots is another example of techniques in Rashomon.

McDonald also reveals that Kurosawa was waiting for a big cloud to appear over Rashomon gate to shoot the final scene in which the woodcutter takes the abandoned baby home ; Kurosawa wanted to show that there might be another dark rain any time soon, even though the sky is clear at this moment.

James F. Davidson's article " Memory of Defeat in Japan: A Reappraisal of Rashomon " in the December 1954 issue of the Antioch Review, is an early analysis of the World War II defeat elements.

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 ).

Miyagawa is best known for his tracking shots, particularly those in Rashomon ( 1950 ), the first of his three collaborations with preeminent filmmaker Akira Kurosawa.

( 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.

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.

It is named for Akira Kurosawa's film Rashomon, in which a crime witnessed by four individuals is described in four mutually contradictory ways.

A Blu-ray edition, without English subtitles, is available in Japan as part of a box set with Rashomon, Ran, and The Quiet Duel.

There is the netsuke, made of famous carver of the 19th century Otoman-Watanabe no Tsuna and Demon of Rashomon.

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.

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, 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.

* 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 ( 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

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 ).

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 ).

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.

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

* 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.

* A Tamil film Andha Naal ( 1954 ) was inspired by Rashomon starring the legendary actor Sivaji Ganesan.

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.

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.

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.

The 1964 Western The Outrage, which starred Paul Newman, Claire Bloom, Edward G. Robinson, and William Shatner, was a remake of Rashomon, with Kurosawa acknowledged for the screenplay.

" In 1974, he played a leading role in the stage play Rashomon with Susse Wold in Denmark, for which he won acclaim.