Akira Kurosawa shooting the film

Harbor Light Entertainment and Tokyo based Lotus have assembled an international consortium to remake director Akira Kurosawa’s 1950 classic.

The premise of the film will be shifted from ancient Japan to modern day America, where a court must decide the facts about the rape of a woman and the murder of her husband.

The English language film will be titled Rashomon 2010. It will be joined by Los Angeles based Lexicon Filmed Entertainment and Singapore’s Upside down Entertainment in the production process.

The film failed to get green light until now. So the news will come as a welcome relief to Harbor but some hard core fans might find this disheartening.

They are also planning to make The Masque of Black Death a feature toon based on an unproduced Kurosawa script before his death.

The film and the toon will be released simultaneously to celebreate the helmer’s 100 th anniversary celebrations.

Kurosawa planned to have Japanese anime auteur Osamu Tezuka to make the toon but it never took off the ground for various reasons.

Set in Russia in the early 20 th century The Masque of Black Death depicts a disease that kills most of the population of the world.

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