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Rashomon

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A 1950 Japanese film directed by Akira Kurosawa in which four witnesses give contradictory accounts of the same crime, a structure so influential in exploring the unreliability of truth and memory that the pattern is now known across many fields as the 'Rashomon effect.'

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1950 1
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35mm black-and-white film 1
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Film 1
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    A 1950 Japanese film directed by Akira Kurosawa in which four witnesses give contradictory accounts of the same crime, a structure so influential in exploring the unreliability of truth and memory that the pattern is now known across many fields as the 'Rashomon effect.
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  • Created By: Akira Kurosawa
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