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 ...

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 ...

Though he died by his own hand at the age of 35, novelist Ryunosuke Akutagawa's accomplishments were such that, even after so brief a writing career, Japan's most prestigious literary accolade — the ...

A samurai is found dead in the woods near Kyoto. There are four eyewitnesses with four different versions of the incident and, somewhere between them, the truth. This is the promise of the whodunit ...

Seventy-five years ago, Akira Kurosawa’s “Rashomon” opened in Japan. The film revolutionized the structure and grammar of modern cinema as surely as Orson Welles’s “Citizen Kane” had a decade earlier, ...