[PDF] Rashomon eBook

Author : Paul Anderer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 29,3 MB
Release : 2016-10-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1681772779

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A groundbreaking investigation into the early life of the iconic Akira Kurosawa in connection to his most famous film—taking us deeper into Kurosawa and his world. Paul Anderer looks back at Kurosawa before he became famous, taking us into the turbulent world that made him. We encounter Tokyo, Kurosawa’s birthplace, which would be destroyed twice before his eyes; explore early twentieth-century Japan amid sweeping cross-cultural changes; and confront profound family tragedy alongside the horror of war. With fresh insights and vivid prose, Anderer discusses the Great Earthquake of 1923, the dynamic energy that surged through Tokyo in its wake, and its impact on Kurosawa as a youth. When the city is destroyed again, in the fire-bombings of 1945, Anderer reveals how Kurosawa grappled with the trauma of war and its aftermath, and forged his artistic vision. Finally, he resurrects the specter and the voice of a gifted and troubled older brother—himself a star in the silent film industry—who took Kurosawa to see his first films, and who led a rebellious life until his desperate end. Kurosawa’s Rashomon uncovers how a film like Rashomon came to be, and why it endures to illuminate the shadows and the challenges of our present.

Author : Akutagawa Ryunosuke
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 43,59 MB
Release : 2018-08-27
Category :
ISBN : 9781726229739

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Rashomon By Akutagawa Ryunosuke This was not only lust, as you might think. At that time if I'd had no other desire than lust, I'd surely not have minded knocking her down and running away. Then I wouldn't have stained my sword with his blood. But the moment I gazed at her face in the dark grove, I decided not to leave there without killing him

Author : Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Publisher : Lebooks Editora
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 41,30 MB
Release : 2024-08-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 655894538X

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"Rashomon and Other Stories" has had a profound impact on both Japanese and international literature. The stories "Rashomon" and "In a Bamboo Grove" were famously adapted into the 1950 film Rashomon by Akira Kurosawa, which brought Akutagawa's work to a global audience and won numerous awards, including the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. Akutagawa's exploration of the human condition, his innovative narrative techniques, and his ability to capture the complexities of moral and existential dilemmas have cemented his place as one of Japan's greatest writers. His works continue to be studied and appreciated for their literary merit and their insights into the human psyche.

Author : Blair Davis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 20,7 MB
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1317574648

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Akira Kurosawa is widely known as the director who opened up Japanese film to Western audiences, and following his death in 1998, a process of reflection has begun about his life’s work as a whole and its legacy to cinema. Kurosawa’s 1950 film Rashomon has become one of the best-known Japanese films ever made, and continues to be discussed and imitated more than 60 years after its first screening. This book examines the cultural and aesthetic impacts of Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon, as well as the director’s larger legacies to cinema, its global audiences and beyond. It demonstrates that these legacies are manifold: not only cinematic and artistic, but also cultural and cognitive. The book moves from an examination of one filmmaker and his immediate social context in Japan, and goes on to explore how an artist’s ideas might transcend their cultural origins to ultimately provide global influences. Discussing how Rashomon’s effects began to multiply with the film being re-imagined and repurposed in numerous media forms in the decades that followed its initial release, the book also shows that the film and its ideas have been applied to a wider range of social and cultural phenomena in a variety of institutional contexts. It addresses issues beyond the realm of Rashomon within film studies, extending to the Rashomon effect, which itself has become a widely recognized English term referring to the significantly different interpretations of different eyewitnesses to the same dramatic event. As the first book on Rashomon since Donald Richie's 1987 anthology, it will be invaluable to students and scholars of film studies, film history, Japanese cinema and communication studies. It will also resonate more broadly with those interested in Japanese culture and society, anthropology and philosophy.

Author : Akira Kurosawa
Publisher : Rutgers Films in Print
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 29,56 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN :

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"Rashomon" is one of the greatest of Japanese director Akira Kurasowa's films and the winner of the Academy Award for best foreign picture in 1952. It features Toshiru Mifune, the best-known Japanese actor in the West, as "the bandit", an accused rapist and murderer. This volume brings together the full continuity script of "Rashomon", an essay by Donald Richie on "Rashomon", the Akutagawa Stories upon which the film is based, critical reviews and commentaries on the film and a filmography.

Author : Ingrid J. Parker
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,83 MB
Release : 2002-07-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780312287986

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Award-winning writer Parker brings ancient Japan to life in a tale of blackmail and murder among high-ranking nobles. 10 illustrations.

Author : Victor Santos
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 50,45 MB
Release : 2017-12-19
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1630088986

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Victor Santos (Polar, Violent Love) writes and illustrates a crime and mystery story inspired by Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s tales featuring the heroic commissioner Heigo Kobayashi When the body of a skilled samurai is found along the road to Yamashina in feudal Japan, the search begins for his killer. Detective Heigo Kobayashi takes the case but finds only dead-end clues and no firsthand witnesses.

Author : Yei Theodora Ozaki
Publisher : Weiser Books
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 43,84 MB
Release : 2012-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1619400952

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Varla Ventura, fan favorite on Huffington Post’s Weird News, frequent guest on Coast to Coast, and bestselling author of The Book of the Bizarre and Beyond Bizarre, introduces a new Weiser Books Collection of forgotten crypto-classics. Magical Creatures is a hair-raising herd of affordable digital editions, curated with Varla’s affectionate and unerring eye for the fantastic. The warrior's sword and the village heroes are no match for the ogres and goblins that gnash their teeth and wreck havoc in early 20th century Japan.

Author : mkdeville
Publisher : Graphic Gymnaz Club
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 25,7 MB
Release : 2014-09-22
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN :

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A lumberjack finds the body of a slaughtered samurai. A thief incriminates himself and begs to be hanged. The deceased’s widow also says she’s the murderer. The samurai, by way of a medium (a witch), claims he killed himself. When certitude crumble to leave room to appearance, do facts turn into illusion, like reflections in a multifaceted mirror? Rashômon explores these facets.

Author : Shinobu Hashimoto
Publisher : Kodansha USA
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 37,9 MB
Release : 2015-03-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1939130581

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Any list of Japan's greatest screenplay writers would feature Shinobu Hashimoto at or near the top. This memoir, focusing on his collaborations with Akira Kurosawa, a gifted scenarist in his own right, offers indispensable insider account for fans and students of the director's oeuvre and invaluable insights into the unique process that is writing for the screen. The vast majority of Kurosawa works were filmed from screenplays that the director co-wrote with a stable of stellar writers, many of whom he discovered himself with his sharp eye for all things cinematic. Among these was Hashimoto, who caught the filmmaker's attention with a script that eventually turned into Rashomon. Thus joining Team Kurosawa the debutant immediately went on to play an integral part in developing and writing two of the grandmaster's most impressive achievements, Ikiru and Seven Samurai.