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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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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Rashomon (Japanese: 羅生門, Hepburn: Rashōmon) is a 1950 Japanese jidaigeki (period drama) psychological thriller film directed by Akira Kurosawa from a screenplay he co-wrote with Shinobu Hashimoto.
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