Rashomon

Author: Ryunosuke Akutagawa
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Publish Date: 2003-12-01
Features: The original screenplay of the internationally acclaimed film by the master filmmaker Akira Kurosawa, one of the few eccentric geniuses in the world literary scene, and a work worth remembering in the history of Japanese literature. Ryunosuke Akutagawa, a giant of the novel, was an important writer of the Taisho era in Japan and a pillar of the New Current school. This school expressed the feelings of the petty bourgeoisie in early 20th-century Japan who were dissatisfied with reality but had no way out. In terms of art, it broke through the long-standing naturalism literature, which had been the mainstream of Japanese literature, and faced social reality with both romantic and realistic tendencies.