What is "rashomon"

is a 1950 Japanese jidaigeki film directed by Akira Kurosawa, working in close collaboration with cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa. It stars Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyō, Masayuki Mori and Takashi Shimura. While the film borrows the title and setting from Ryūnosuke Akutagawa's short story " Rashōmon", it is actually based on Akutagawa's short story " In a Grove", which provides the characters and plot.

The film is known for a plot device that involves various characters providing alternative, self-serving and contradictory versions of the same incident. Rashomon marked the entrance of Japanese film onto the world stage; 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 now considered one of the greatest films ever made.

Rashomon, Rashōmon or Rajōmon may refer to:

is a short story by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa based on tales from the Konjaku Monogatarishū.

The story was first published in 1915 in Teikoku Bungaku. Akira Kurosawa's film Rashomon (1950) takes only its name and some of the material for the frame scenes, such as the theft of a kimono and the discussion of the moral ambiguity of thieving to survive, from this story. The plot of the film is based on Akutagawa's 1922 short story " In a Grove".

Rashomon is the name of several different stage productions, all ultimately derived from works by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa.

Rashomon aka Lover’s Puzzle is the seventh Mandarin studio album of Taiwanese Mandopop artist Show Luo . It was released on 15 January 2010 by Gold Typhoon (Taiwan).

The album was available on pre-order and three editions were released including the Rashomon (Dance Without Limits 3D MV Collectible Edition) (羅生門 舞法舞天3D影音典藏版) (CD+DVD). It includes a new song "舞法舞天" (Dance Without Limits) and 3D music video of the song, which was the theme song for 2010 Show Luo (Dance Without Limits 3D World Live) World Tour Concert.

Rashōmon is a Noh play by Kanze Nobumitsu (c.1420).

The title relates to the Rajōmon outer castle gate but Kanze changed it by using the kanji shō for "life" rather than the original jō for "castle." It is one of the few Noh plays where the supporting waki rather than the normally leading shite dominates the action. It is also a play which follows characters from one venue to another. Act 1 takes place in the dining hall of a general, but in Act 2 the waki character, Tsuna, climbs the Rasho Gate to determine the truth of a story that a demon resides on the gate top.