The American mystery drama adapted from "Rashomon" will be jointly produced by HBO Max

The American TV series version of Akira Kurosawa's classic film "Rashomon" has been picked up by HBO Max and will be developed in cooperation with Amblin TV. The screenwriters have been confirmed: Billy Ray ("Comey's Rule") and Virgil Williams ("Mudbound").

The series is produced by Amblin Television (the TV version of "The Haunting") and is a plot-based mystery thriller that has been in operation since 2018. It is not a direct adaptation of the original movie. It will focus on a series of unsolved mysteries of sexual assault and murder, but it also tells the same thing from different people's perspectives, bringing the truth to the audience from the different perspectives of the characters, and exploring the relationship between subjective views and factual truth. There are a total of 10 episodes.

"Rashomon", a movie made more than 60 years ago, has been adapted and re-created in countless movies and TV series. The film is based on the short story "In the Grove of Bamboos" by Japanese writer Ryunosuke Akutagawa. It is set in the Heian period of Japan, where wars, natural disasters and diseases were constant. It mainly tells the story of a case caused by the killing of a samurai and the various things that happened after the case in which people accused each other of being the murderer.