Japanese courtroom films

is a 1950 Japanese period drama (jidaigeki) film directed by Akira Kurosawa from a screenplay he co-wrote with Shinobu Hashimoto. Starring Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyō, Masayuki Mori, and Takashi Shimura, it follows various people who describe how a samurai was murdered in a forest. The plot and characters are based upon Ryūnosuke Akutagawa's short story "In a Grove", with the title and framing story taken from Akutagawa's "Rashōmon". Every element is largely identical, from the murdered samurai speaking through a Shinto psychic to the bandit in the forest, the monk, the assault of the wife, an

1950 film by Akira Kurosawa

2017 film by Hirokazu Koreeda

2012 film by Takashi Miike

2007 film by Masayuki Suo

2011 film by Kōki Mitani

2007 Japanese film by Masayuki Suzuki

1956 film by Tadashi Imai