The great director Akira Kurosawa was famous for his many adaptations. How did he start the process of making such an extraordinary film as Rashōmon (Japan, 1950), that would be acclaimed worldwide. How did he start the process of making such an extraordinary film?
The production came about when Daiei Studios asked Kurosawa to direct another film for them. (Rashōmon was not his first feature.) Kurosawa recalls:
As I cast about for what to film, I suddenly remembered a script based on the short story “Yabu no naka” (“In a Grove”) by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa. It had been written by Hashimoto Shinobu … It was a very well-written piece, but not long enough to make into a feature film … [Later] the memory of it jumped out of one of those ...
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