Rashomon

Looks at the mysteries of truth and subjective reality. Uses a flashback within a flashback technique to tell the story, set in the Middle Ages, about a man's murder and the rape of his wife. Directed by Akira Kurosawa. Japanese with English subtitles.

The film opens on a woodcutter (木樵り; Kikori, played by Takashi Shimura) and a priest (旅法師; Tabi Hōshi, Minoru Chiaki) sitting beneath the Rashōmon city gate to stay dry in a downpour. Both men are summoned to testify in court, where they meet the captured bandit Tajōmaru (多襄丸), who claims to have set the samurai free after encountering him in the forest. Tajomaru claims that he tricked the samurai to step off the mountain trail with