Japanese nonlinear narrative 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

1997 film by Satoshi Kon

2023 film directed by Hirokazu Koreeda

2010 film directed by Tetsuya Nakashima

2003 film directed by Vincent Gallo

1993 film directed by Derek Jarman

2002 film by Takashi Shimizu

2001 film by Shunji Iwai

2003 film by Takashi Shimizu

2000 film by Takashi Shimizu

2004 film by Tetsuya Nakashima

1989 film by Shōhei Imamura

2000 film directed by Takashi Shimizu

1971 film by Nagisa Ōshima

2006 film by Katsuhiro Otomo

1970 film by Nagisa Ōshima

2000 film by Hideo Nakata

1958 film by Nobuo Nakagawa