Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

Based on "In a Grove" by Akutagawa Rynoske. One shiny summer day the investigation group comes at former quarry check of indications of accused, witnesses and victims of the murder and the rape took place there half a year ago.

One of the Angels of Death comes to the Earth in order to take the 25-years-old Komachi. Desperately trying to escape from her unfortunate destiny, the young girl makes up a pregnancy and begs him to deceive the Underworld and take another 25 years-old Komachi, who is friend of hers. Death falls in love with two women and has to come to terms with itself, in this story that takes inspiration from a Japanese classic, here set in a misterious and seductive Hong Kong, shown over the course of decades.

China is tumultuous in 1921 when the famed Japanese author of "Rashōmon", Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, visits Shanghai as a correspondent. Here he encounters revolutionaries, courtesans and much more…

Based on Ryunosuke Akutagawa's In a Grove, story takes place during the times of Tsar Alexander II. A lady-in-waiting tells the Emperor in his bedroom a metaphysical story about a 13th century prince who is killed in the woods under mysterious circumstances. Fairy tale characters who have witnessed the terrible death, all share their version of the events, gradually shedding light on what really happened.

In this worthy adaptation of the Japanese film Rashomon, a young monk is left to determine the truth behind three competing perspectives after a bandit’s disturbing murder trial.

Four short films based on ghost stories written by award winning modern Japanese writers.

A tale of two islands and growing up as a stranger in a strange land, told with an artistry that recalls Hou Hsiao-Hsien at his best. Based on Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s short story of the same title (1922), Kawaguchi’s film moves the original early 20th-century Izu Peninsula to present-day Taiwan, where the strength of family ties is singularly put to the test. Yumiko (Machiko Ono), who married against her parents' wishes, has struggled on in stubborn determination since her husband’s death, moving her family from their Tokyo home to the verdant, rural Taiwan village of her in-laws. Her son Atsushi, strongly conscious that in ethnocentric Japan he is "different," is in a state of rebellion against both the society in which he has grown up and his mother. In their new home the family rediscovers the bonds that unite it.

한 숲에서 한 남자가 살해되고 그의 아내가 강간당하고, 목격자들의 진술은 매우 모순적이다. 누가 진실을 말하고, 누가 거짓말을 하는 것인가?

Sato's re-imagining of In a Grove, on which Rashomon was based. In this version, instead of a web of lies and agendas, we get a web of desires, perversions like incest, and occult phenomenon like an oracle-demon, hallucinations, and human sacrifice. Once again, the story starts with a detective trying to unravel the story of a man and a woman encountering a bandit-rapist in the woods, but the real story keeps turning out to be unfathomable as layer upon layer of strange motives and events keep turning up.

아쿠타가와 류노스케의 동명 단편소설을 원안으로 삼고 있다. 원작은 가족들의 생계를 위해 유곽에서 매춘을 하는 송금화가 매독에 걸리지만 예수라고 착각한 닮은 꼴의 외국인을 손님으로 맞이하면서 병이 나았다고 믿게된다는 이야기를 다루고 있다. 영화에서는 아쿠타가와 류노스케를 모델로 한 소설가 오카가와 류이치로가 신문사 시찰단원으로 중국에 가게 되면서 유곽의 금화를 만나서 사랑을 나누는 이야기를 중심으로 그려내고 있다.

Taiwanese director Jo Jo Wang's 1985 adaptation of Ryunosuke Akutagawa's short story "The Christ of Nanking". Taiwan's Government Information Office demanded cuts to the erotic scenes, objected to the poster (depicting lead actress Lu Hsiao-fen crucified nude), and demanded a change of the Chinese title.

The Chinese tale of a poor young man. His mother married to the cruel king of the state and he wants to take his mother back. One old man comes from the heaven and makes his three wishes come true.

Horror film based on the story by Ryunosuke Akutagawa.

The story, set in the Heian era, depicts the conflict between Korean painter Yoshihide (Nakadai) and his Japanese patron, the cruel and egotistical daimyo Horikawa (Nakamura). It is based on the 1918 short story Hell Screen by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa.

At a disused railway station, three men -- a con artist, a preacher, and a prospector -- discuss the recent trial and sentencing of the outlaw Juan Carrasco for the murder of a man and the rape of his wife. In their recounting, the three explore the conflicting testimonies of the parties involved in the crimes. Disconcerting new questions arise with each different version of the event.

The picture belongs to the jidai gekki (historic) genre. It is a powerful story of violence and eroticism, picturing a world at once sordid and poetic, with two central themes which intermingle to compound an admirable panel of a critical period in Japanese history: the great famine in the mid 19th Century.

전란이 난무하는 헤이안 시대, 폭우가 쏟아지는 라생문의 처마 밑에서 나뭇꾼과 스님이 심각한 표정으로 생각에 잠겨 있다. 잠시 비를 피하러 그곳에 들른 한 남자. 이들은 이 남자를 상대로 최근에 그 마을에 있었던 기묘한 사건을 들려준다. 사건의 배경은 녹음이 우거진 숲 속. 사무라이 타케히로가 자신의 아내 마사코와 함께 숲 속을 지나고 있었다. 산적 타조마루는 그들 앞에 나타나 속임수로 타케히로를 포박하고 마사코를 겁탈한다. 오후에 그 숲에 들어선 나뭇꾼은 타케히로의 가슴에 칼이 꽂혀있는 것을 발견하고 관청에 신고한다. 타조마루는 체포되고, 행방이 묘연했던 마사코도 불려와 관청에서 심문이 벌어지는데...