Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon(1950).
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Two Akira Kurosawa Projects Getting Updated
By: Jarrod SarafinDate: Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Source: Variety
Along with being the major influence behind the creation of Star Wars (The Hidden Fortress), the memory of the legendary Akira Kurosawa lives on. In fact, two projects are coming out based on his works in hopes of getting them released in time to celebrate what would have been his 100th birthday in 2010. Variety reports that Los Angeles-based Harbor Light Entertainment and Tokyo-based Lotus have assembled an international consortium to remake helmer Akira's 1950 classic Rashomon. The modern take on the classic will be getting an English-language based update along with moving to an American setting by Harbor Light, Lotus, Lexicon Filmed Entertainment and Singapore's Upside Down Entertainment.
Plot Concept: Action will be moved from ancient Japan to contempo America, where a court must decide the facts about the rape of a woman and the murder of her husband.
The partners are also gearing up to make The Masque of Black Death, a feature toon based on an unproduced Kurosawa script penned in 1977. The partners plan to have the remake and the toon in theaters in 2010 as part of a 100th anni celebration. Kurosawa planned to have Japanese anime auteur Osamu Tezuka make the pic, but the project never got off the ground before the director's death in 1998.
Plot Concept: Set in Russia in the early 20th century, "The Masque of Black Death" depicts a disease that kills most of the population.
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"Plot Concept: Action will be moved from ancient Japan to contempo America,(STOP!!!) where a court must decide the facts about the rape of a woman and the murder of her husband."
umm... Perry Mason? Leave it set in ancient Japan.
"The partners are also gearing up to make The Masque of Black Death
Plot Concept: Set in Russia in the early 20th century, "The Masque of Black Death" depicts a disease that kills most of the population."
hmm.. wasnt that 28 Days/Weeks Later, Night/Dawn/Day/Land of the Living Dead and I AM LEGEND and a host of other flicks?
is it still going to be set in Russia in the early 20th Century? Lets set it in America, in the 21st Century, ok?