It’s not just that Akira Kurosawa’s 1950 “Rashomon” brought Japanese film to the west; or that it introduced to us the young, rising Toshiro Mifune; or that its title has become the universal ...

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

Invoke the phrase “greatest movie of all time,” and you’d better bring your A-game. Film fans don’t take their “bests” lightly; while fleeting passions may prompt easy praise (Avatar anyone?), smart ...

In the real world, we all move through time together. Things happen in a linear order. In the movies, they don't have to. Take the recent horror blockbuster "Weapons." (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "WEAPONS") ...

Amblin Television and HBO Max have entered a development deal to create a television series inspired by Akira Kurosawa’s “Rashomon.” The untitled series will not be an adaptation of the original ...

theater teacher and International Thespian Society advisor Stephen Clark will be staging the school's fall play "Rashomon" in a style he calls "Fusion Kabuki." Kabuki is a traditional Japanese theater ...