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	Rajomon / Rashomon - Great Gate of Kyoto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Rashomon was the name of the great southern gate that traversed the southern boundary of the central street (Suzaku Avenue) - the street that led directly to the Nijo, the Imperial Palace (Rashomon means literally "castle gate").
		Rashomon was built to be a frontage for Heian Kyo.
		From its second level, the gate had a tiled roof with a ridge of shining golden goose tales.
	www.crock11.freeserve.co.uk /rajomon.htm (567 words)

	Rashomon Gate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Rashōmon (羅生門 or 羅城門 Rajōmon) was formerly the grandest of the two city gates of the Japanese city of Kyoto during the Heian period.
		The ruined gate is the central setting – and provides the title – for Akira Kurosawa's famous 1950 film, Rashōmon, which is based on a short story by Akutagawa Ryūnosuke.
		Akutagawa's use of the gate was deliberately symbolic, with the gate's ruined state representing the moral and physical decay of Japanese civilization and culture.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rashomon_Gate (164 words)

	SARUDAMA.COM: Japanese Movie Reviews: Rashomon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		According to historians, the gate was constructed in 786 AD when the capital of Japan was transferred to Kyoto.
		In the end, the woodcutter, sitting under the Rashomon is prodded by the monk and thief into admitting having seen the entire ordeal and then provides what the movie suggests is the most reliable version.
		Rashomon was remade by director Marin Ritt in 1964 as "Outrage" starring Paul Newman as the bandit (from Mexico), Claire Bloom as the woman he allegedly rapes, Laurence Harvey as her husband, and Edward G. Robinson as the narrator.
	www.sarudama.com /movies/rashomon.shtml (763 words)

	Christian Fuchs' Words on Film
		Gate scenes are vertical and until the end of the film take place in the rain; testimony scenes in the prison courtyard are horizontal and take place in bright sunlight.
		The rain falling during the re-telling of the tales at the gate suggests a murky interpretation of the story; the bright light of the prison courtyard reflects what is supposed to be truthful testimony; and the forest is dappled with both sunlight and shadows (Kauffmann in Goodwin, p.
		In Rashomon, he adds to this by saying it is equally important to not act selfishly.
	www.s2f.com /cpfuchs/rashomon.html (2081 words)

	Break-A-Leg: (T) June 25, 2003 - Rashomon
		Rashomon, written by Ryunosuke Akutagawa and adapted for stage by Joe Hasham and directed and produced by Faridah Merican, is a story about the murder of a samurai, the rape of his wife, and the confession of a bandit.
		The play transpired at Kyoto's crumbling Rashomon gate, where several people sought shelter from the pelting rain and while waiting for it to subside, found conversation in discussing a recent crime.
		The audience was transported from the gates of Rashomon, to the Court, to the forest where the murder took place, and even briefly, to hell.
	break-a-leg.blogspot.com /2005/02/t-june-25-2003-rashomon.html (1257 words)

	Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		His Rashomon (1950), Seven Samurai (1954), Throne of blood (1957) and Yajimbo (1961), to name only four of his remarkable creations, are glorious monuments to his imagination, sensitiveness and ability to handle his chosen themes and establish his particular cinematic style.
		Rashomon opens with two men, a woodcutter and a priest, who sit beneath the ruins of the famous Rashomon Gate and tell their story to a third man, a stranger, the listener.
		Rashomon is, indeed, a great cinematic achievement at demonstrating the subjectivity and relativity of truth.
	www.asianfilms.org /japan/kuro-tribute.html (1553 words)

	MovieFreak.com - Rashomon: Criterion Collection DVD Review
		The moment I laid eyes upon the dilapidated Rashomon gate as the rain pours down upon it, I no longer held any apprehension toward "classic" cinema.
		Rashomon (based on the short stories "Rashomon" and "In A Grove" by Ryunosuke Akutagawa) is a story about the nature of reality.
		We start in the present, at the gate of Rashomon, where the woodcutter and a priest think about the events of three days ago.
	www.moviefreak.com /dvd/r/rashomon_a.htm (648 words)

	Review: Rashomon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Rashomon, made in 1950, was the pair's fifth movie together, and the film that first garnered Kurosawa widespread international attention (it won the 1952 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar).
		The central tale, which tells of the rape of a woman (Machiko Kyo) and the murder of a man (Masayuki Mori), possibly by a bandit (Toshiro Mifune), is presented entirely in flashbacks from the perspectives of four narrators.
		The framing portions of the movie transpire at Kyoto's crumbling Rashomon gate, where several people seek shelter from a pelting rain storm and discuss the recent crime, which has shocked the region.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/r/rashomon.html (1261 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Great Movies :: Rashomon (xhtml)
		In a sense, "Rashomon" is a victim of its success, as Stuart Galbraith IV writes in The Emperor and the Wolf, his comprehensive new study of the lives and films of Kurosawa and his favorite actor, Toshiro Mifune.
		The genius of "Rashomon" is that all of the flashbacks are both true and false.
		The wonder of "Rashomon" is that while the shadowplay of truth and memory is going on, we are absorbed by what we trust is an unfolding story.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20020526/REVIEWS08/205260301/1023 (1257 words)

	Blas' Personal Page: A Cleansing of Human Kind
		The story comes to be told by the meeting of three characters--a priest, a commoner, and a woodcutter--at the Rashomon gate.
		The gate is in a state of decay, much like the society as the priest and the woodcutter see it.
		Rashomon was accepted so well by western critics probably because Kurosawa forces us to reflect upon societal ills.
	www.buber.net /Blas/Writings/fc_rasho.html (1302 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - Rashomon: Criterion Collection
		Rashomon is the film that first brought Kurosawa to the attention of western audiences.
		As the witnesses finish telling their stories and the rain over the Rashomon gate clears up, there is a moment of surprise that seems intended to reaffirm Kurosawa's basic optimism and faith in human nature.
		Rashomon is a great film by the greatest director of all time.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/rashomon.php (1907 words)

	Wellington Film Society - The Film Idea
		RASHOMON is not a film about the relativity of truth, however; it is about the kinds of lies people will tell to protect their self-image, the most important possession a man believes he has.
		In RASHOMON, we are very quickly alerted to the narrators' highly personal involvement by the style of the film, and so we tend to accept the testimony of each of the participants only tentatively once we discover (during the second narration) that the versions are contradictory.
		The art of RASHOMON requires both a commentary on and a reaction to the contradictory versions of the narrative, and Kurosawa determines to shape that commentary-reaction itself into a narrative, immediately enlarging the scope of the implications of all that we have seen.
	filmsociety.wellington.net.nz /FilmIdea.html (6065 words)

	Flipside Movie Emporium: Rashomon Movie Review
		Rashomon is the film that catapulted Akira Kurosawa into widespread acclaim and recognition around the world, garnering first place at the 1951 Venice Film Festival and later picking up an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
		In 11th-century Japan, three men taking shelter from a savage rainstorm under the Rashomon gate discuss a recent murder and recount the conflicting testimonies of those involved.
		He may have been murdered by the crazed bandit (Toshiro Mifune) who raped his wife (Machiko Kyo), but her version of the story differs greatly from that of the bandit, who has no qualms about claiming that he raped the woman and then killed the man in a duel.
	www.flipsidemovies.com /rashomon.html (813 words)

	Releases :: Moravian College Theater Company presents Rashomon
		Rashomon is the story of a quest for truth.
		Three travelers, a Buddhist priest, a woodcutter and a wigmaker have taken shelter from a storm beneath the old Rashomon gate.
		As they argue over a recent crime in which a bandit has murdered a Samurai warrior and raped his wife, the stories told by the bandit, the wife and the dead husband (via a medium) are acted out.
	www.moravian.edu /news/releases/2004/121.htm (322 words)

	City gate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A city gate is a gate set within a city wall.
		Amsterdamse Poort, a city gate of Haarlem, the Netherlands
		London's Roman and Medieval gates of the London Wall: Ludgate, Newgate, Aldersgate, Bishopsgate, Cripplegate, Moorgate, Aldgate
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/City_gate (99 words)

	reverse shot : online : reverse shot fesses up
		Rashomon stands in for a particular narrative strategy with respect to film, but also transcends its specific iteration to signify an idea about narrative itself, whatever the medium.
		Some fifty odd years after its release, the pleasure of watching Rashomon is the pleasure of learning that there exists wiggle room to debate almost any facile assertion or bit of received wisdom about either it’s “message,” or it’s narrative implications.
		Ultimately, after having finally caught up with Rashomon, it seems far less like some axiomatic assertion, such as “truth is unknowable,” than it does an enigmatic bundle of contradictions, offering only itself and the experience of viewing it as a means toward grasping its depth of meaning.
	www.reverseshot.com /autumn05/symposium/rashomon.html (1247 words)

	Review: Rashomon
		Rashomon, made in 1950, was the pair's fifth movie together, and the film that first garnered Kurosawa widespread international attention (it won the 1952 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar).
		The central tale, which tells of the rape of a woman (Machiko Kyo) and the murder of a man (Masayuki Mori), possibly by a bandit (Toshiro Mifune), is presented entirely in flashbacks from the perspectives of four narrators.
		The framing portions of the movie transpire at Kyoto's crumbling Rashomon gate, where several people seek shelter from a pelting rain storm and discuss the recent crime, which has shocked the region.
	www.reelviews.net /movies/r/rashomon.html (1261 words)

	Forums - Show Single Post
		In Rashomon, the film opens in torrential rain, and five shots move from long shot to closeup to reveal two men sitting in the shelter of Kyoto's Rashomon Gate.
		Kurosawa notes in his autobiography that he had imagined Rashomon as a silent film and tried to stay with that aesthetic, which is to tell the story through the visuals.
		Rashomon is the film that is often given credit for the first time a camera was pointed directly at the sun.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /vine/showpost.php?p=6800622&postcount=145 (638 words)

	notcoming.com \| Rashomon
		Drifters convene underneath the crumbling façade of the abandoned Rashomon gate (at the entrance to Japan’s former capital, Kyoto), seeking shelter in a relentless flood of rain.
		Rashomon contests this presumption by constructing a scenario that, befitted by this traditional interpretation, has no truth — or rather, hinders the viewer’s ability to procure it.
		Here, Rashomon’s innovative strength is apparent: the woodcutter is seated in front of a predominantly white, nondescript background, and speaks to a jury audience — which is unseen outside of the frame.
	www.notcoming.com /reviews.php?id=179 (837 words)

	rashomonr
		Apart from that flaw, this is a quietly impassioned “Rashomon.” Gwaltney and set designer Don Hess have devised a superb use of the Empire Theater’s space—creating an extreme thrust stage with the theater’s modular seating so that the alternating action between the upstage Rashomon Gate and the downstage courtroom and forest scenes flow seamlessly.
		Demonstrating the often elastic nature of truth, Fay and Michael Kanin's tightly crafted Rashomon is an intriguing exercise in shifting perspectives--one that deals out few concrete facts, instead dwelling more on man's tendency to twist the truth and alter reality to suit his own needs.
		Presented as a conversation between three men at a Japanese temple gate, the script plays out as a murder mystery of sorts: a young samurai and his wife are accosted by a bandit in the forest, the wife is raped, and the samurai is murdered.
	www.rudeguerrilla.org /1999season/Rashomon/rashomonR.html (1808 words)

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		In a classic example, such close attention was paid to environmental elements that fl ink was added to the rain pouring from the gate in Rashomon so that it could be recorded in all of its spontaneous drama.
		The film is named after a gate that once was the largest gate in Japan's ancient capital Kyoto.
		After the capital was moved, the gate fell into disrepair and became known as a home for thieves and dead bodies.
	www.thematthewshouseproject.com /film/Kurosawa.htm (998 words)

	Rashomon - A Note from the Playwrights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Two of his stories, "Rashomon" and "In the Grove," had been meshed together to form the narrative of the film.
		"Rashomon" was set in twelfth-century Kyoto in a time of chaos.
		Using the Rashomon gate as a metaphor for judicial authority, we set our adaptation ten years after the crime in question, with a central character of a judge who must grapple with the dilemma of the conflicting testimonies from that case.
	www.pangeaworldtheater.org /RA/note.html (463 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Reviews : Rashomon: The Criterion Collection
		While post-war Italian cinema (the previous art house flavor of the week) embraced a form of cinematic documentary realism, Akira Kurosawa's film was both formalist and modernist at the same time; a picture of breathtaking visual beauty recounting a tale of uncertainty that challenged our ability to grasp the truth in a destabilized world.
		One of them is a woodcutter (Takashi Shimura) who says to himself, "I don't understand." His companion is a priest (Minoru Chiaki), who should be the one to bring insight and understanding to the events of the day, but who instead is just as baffled, his faith in humanity destroyed.
		From the lengthy scenes of the woodcutter walking in the woods where light and shadow play ominously (a sequence that almost is like a silent film in its technique) to the contrasting duels (one noble, the other messy), the film is the work of artists fully in command of their talent.
	www.dvdjournal.com /reviews/r/rashomon_cc.shtml (1673 words)

	JoyOfMovies.com: Japanese Cinema
		In a classic example, such close attention was paid to environmental elements that fl ink was added to the rain pouring from the gate in Rashomon so that it could be recorded in all of its spontaneous drama.
		In Rashomon and Dersu Uzala, for example, much time is spent just apprehending the faces of the characters.
		After the capital was moved, the gate fell into disrepair and became known as a home for thieves and dead bodies.
	www.seattlecat.com /joyofmovies/2001/rashomon.html (1014 words)

	ECU Japan League (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Rashomon was made for a Japanese audience and was very popular in Japan.
		Also, at the very end of the film a baby is found at the Rashomon Gate and the woodcutter takes the baby home to add to his large family.
		This plot device to soften the negative impact of the film on the audience and to give hope where little has been experienced weakens the impact of all the events in the story we have just seen.
	saga.patternblue.net /newsread.php?newsid=24 (709 words)

	SHOW BUSINESS WEEKLY: REVIEWS: Rashomon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		This Rashomon is no radical experiment but a worthy equal to Kurosawa’s version as an example of propulsive storytelling.
		Rashomon is primarily about the slippery nature of truth but, like all great stories, winds up touching upon virtually everything that matters most to us.
		Rashomon is worth a trip to the West End Theatre for anyone fascinated by the film, intrigued by the premise, or curious about the work of Akutagawa.
	www.showbusinessweekly.com /archive/112/rashomon.html (500 words)

	rashomon
		The term for Rashomon became incorporated into the everyday language, and Japanese films became a regular part of the western world's film culture mainly because of this film.
		This was a unique filming device used by Kurosawa of zooming in on the character when telling his or her version, as each had a different rhythm that the camera underscored by revealing the particular mood of the storyteller.
		For Kurosawa, Rashomon is a film about the lies people tell to protect their self-image.
	www.sover.net /~ozus/rashomon.htm (1549 words)

	Movie Database - [TV Guide Online] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		One of the most brilliantly constructed films of all time, RASHOMON is a monument to Akira Kurosawa's greatness, combining his well-known humanism with an experimental narrative style that has become a hallmark of film history.
		The central portion of the film revolves around four varying points of view of the rape of a woman and the death of her husband in a forest.
		Like the ruins of the Rashomon Gate (the film is after all named RASHOMON and not IN THE GROVE), the humanity Kurosawa depicts is crumbling and in danger of completely collapsing.
	online.tvguide.com /movies/database/showmovie.asp?MI=30612 (433 words)

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