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Rashomon

Proper noun

Meaning

Rashomon

(attributive) The Rashomon effect.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

The decade started with Akira Kurosawa 's Rashomon (1950), which won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1951 and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1952, and marked the entrance of Japanese cinema onto the world stage. Source: Internet

Production Crew: Teruyo Nogami served as script supervisor, production manager, associate director or assistant to the producer on all Kurosawa's films from Rashomon to the end of the director's career. Source: Internet

Noting that there were "occasional, refreshing moments of intergenerational bitchiness", they did not "justify comparisons to All About Eve ", and were "insufficiently different to deserve critical parallels with Rashomon ". Source: Internet

Someone in a Tree, is a compact Rashomon - and as fine as anything Mr. Sondheim has written. Source: Internet

Closer home, the legend goes that S Balachander caught a screening of Rashomon, wrote an inspired play that was rejected by the All India Radio, and turned it into Sivaji Ganesan-starrer Andha Naal. Source: Internet

There's even a term regarding how unreliable eye witness testimony is known as the "Rashomon effect." Source: Internet

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