Rashomon : Between The Story and The Film taken from http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/Rashomon Rashomon is a story written by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, one of the most famous writer in Japan. His writings are cynical and bring up uncommon theme thus he is said to have strong characteristic in the way of writing. “What he did was to question the values of his society, dramatize the complexities of human psychology, and study, with a Zen taste for paradox, the precarious balance of illusion and reality,” (Kojima, 12). Rashomon itself is the largest gate in Kyoto when Kyoto was a capital city of Japan. With the decline of West Kyoto, the gate became a hideout for thieves and robbers and a place for abandoning unclaimed corpses. The story is about a discharged servant who saw an old woman on the top of Rashomon is stealing hair from the corpse left there. The woman said that she was doing this to earn money for life. Even though at first the servant thought stealing like