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Podcast: Arts & Ideas
Episode: Revisit RashÅmon
Description: Who can you trust? That's the question posed in RashÅmon. In today's programme Rana Mitter's guests David Peace, Natasha Pulley, Yuna Tasaka and Jasper Sharp look at both the book and the film.RyÅ«nosuke Akutagawa's short story 'In a Grove', published in 1922, became the basis for the 1950 film from Akira Kurosawa 'RashÅmon', one of the first Japanese films to gain worldwide critical acclaim. 'The RashÅmon Effect' has become a byword for the literary technique where the same event is presented via the different and incompatible testimonies from the characters involved. David Peace's book 'Pat...