Ворота Расёмон by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
A destitute servant shelters from a storm beneath a crumbling city gate in medieval Kyoto and wrestles with whether to abandon morality to survive. In the attic he finds an old woman plucking hair from corpses to sell, who defends her actions as necessary in desperate times. Confronted with decay, hunger, and hypocrisy, he embraces theft and brutality, disappearing into the night.
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- 1915
- Nationality
- Japanese
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- Japanese
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- Alternate Titles
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- Rashomon
- Rashōmon
- 羅生門
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