Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
is a short story by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa; it first appeared in the January 1922 edition of the Japanese literature monthly "Shinchō". Akira Kurosawa used this story as the basis for the plot of his award-winning 1950 movie "Rashōmon". The work was ranked by "The Telegraph" in 2014 as one of the 10 all-time greatest Asian novels.