It is noticeable that the tales in “Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories” by Ryunosuke Akutagawa change in tone and style alongside the mental state and interests of the writer. Akutagawa's most famed ...

How would you honor the legacies of Akutagawa Ryunosuke, whose stories inspired the movie Rashomon, or Akira Kurosawa, the legendary filmmaker who made the movie, or Faye and Michael Kanin, who ...

Ryunosuke Akutagawa is probably best known outside Japan for “Rashomon” but “Kappa” is considered to be his masterpiece by fans and scholars. Narrated by a “mental patient” and introduced as a tale ...

What is truth? That ancient question gets put through the wringer in “Rashomon,” Ubuntu Theater Project’s world premiere by acclaimed Berkeley-based playwright Philip Kan Gotanda. If the title sounds ...

“How can any of us escape this world of ours, except for faith, madness or death?” wonders the protagonist of David Peace’s 10th novel, a fictional imagining of the life of Ryunosuke Akutagawa ...