Tajomaru (2009)

Tajomaru is a 2009 movie directed by Hiroyuki Nakano. Like Akira Kurosawa’s award-winning 1950 film “Rashomon”, it’s based on the 1922 short story “In a Grove” by Ryunosuke Akutagawa. However, unlike Kurosawa’s adaptation, this version centers almost entirely around the life of the bandit character Tajomaru.