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is a 1950 Japanese period drama film directed by Akira Kurosawa, working in close collaboration with cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa. It stars Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyō, Masayuki Mori and Takashi Shimura. The film is based on two stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa: "Rashomon", which provides the setting, and "In a Grove", which provides the characters and plot. The film is known for a plot device that involves various characters providing alternative, self-serving and contradictory versions of the same incident. ''Rashomon'' marked the entrance of Japanese film onto the world stage;〔Wheeler Winston Dixon, Gwendolyn Audrey Foster: ''A Short History of Film''. Rutgers University Press, 2008, ISBN 9780813544755, p. (203 )〕〔Catherine Russell: ''Classical Japanese Cinema Revisited''. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2011, ISBN 9781441107770, (chapter 4 ''The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa'' )〕 it won several awards, including the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1951, and an Academy Honorary Award at the 24th Academy Awards in 1952, and is now considered one of the greatest films ever made. ==Etymology and a phrase developed after movie release== The name of the film refers to the enormous, former city gate "between modern day Kyoto and Nara", on Suzaka Avenue's end to the South.〔Richie, ''Rashomon'', p 113.〕 The characters it's written with literally mean 'the castle gate'. The term Rashomon effect refers to real-world situations in which multiple eye-witness testimonies of an event contain conflicting information. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rashomon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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