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Kurosawa's 'Rashomon' to get US remake
Published Tuesday, Sep 23 2008, 16:53 BST | By Simon Reynolds
Rex Features
Los Angeles firm Harbour Light Entertainment and Tokyo-based Lotus have secured a deal to remake the 1950 film, with the action being shifted from ancient Japan to modern-day America.
The story revolves around the rape of a woman and a murder of her husband told from four different perspectives.
The movie is often credited as the inspiration behind Bryan Singer's 1995 thriller The Usual Suspects.
Harbour and Lotus plan to release Rashomon and the animated Masque Of Black Death - based on an unproduced Kurosawa script - in 2010 to mark the 100th anniversary of the Japanese filmmaker's birth.
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