Word: rashomon
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Dates: during 1952-1952
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...RASHOMON (119 pp.) - Ryunosuke Akutagawa-Liveright...
Last year. U.S. filmgoers made his acquaintance in the sardonic and powerful Japanese movie. Rashomon. Filmed with stylized elegance and thrumming with barbaric force, Rashomon nonetheless softened Akutagawa's savage original, In a Grove, with a benign ending. Readers with hardy digestions can now compare the two and sample five other Akutagawa short stories of lesser scope, all of which combine a bitter misanthropy with a craft that is as spare and durable as bamboo...
...Rashomon. A powerful Japanese film about an ancient crime of passion, told with barbaric force (TIME...
...Rashomon. A powerful Japanese film about an ancient crime of passion, told with barbaric force (TIME...
...Rashomon. A powerful Japanese film about an ancient crime of passion, told with barbaric force (TIME...