"Rashomon" on Iran Theater T.V

The play "Rashomon" is based on the screenplay of the memorable work of Akira Kurosawa, the renowned director of Japanese cinema.

 

The play "Rashomon", which was staged in the central hall of Rasht and Hafez Hall in 2020, had participated  at  39th Fadjr International Theater Festival. The duration of this play is one hour and 15 minutes and it is production of   the Vendic Art Group.

 

Ehsan Abdolmaleki said:” "At the Vendic Art Group  we believe that literature  have a  sacred place, and that it can help to bring people and nations closer together in combination with other arts."

 

 

Rashomon is a 1950 Jidaigeki psychological thriller/crime film directed by Akira Kurosawa, working in close collaboration with cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa. Starring Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyō, Masayuki Mori, and Takashi Shimura as various people who describe how a samurai was murdered in a forest, the plot and characters are based upon Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s short story "In a Grove", with the title and framing story being based on "Rashomon", another short story by Akutagawa. Every element is largely identical, from the murdered samurai speaking through a Shinto psychic to the bandit in the forest, the monk, the rape of the wife, and the dishonest retelling of the events in which everyone shows his or her ideal self by lying.

 

The film is known for a plot device that involves various characters providing subjective, alternative, self-serving, and contradictory versions of the same incident. Rashomon was the first Japanese film to receive a significant international reception. it won several awards, including the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1951, and an Academy Honorary Award at the 24th Academy Awards in 1952, and is considered one of the greatest films ever made.