A man and his wife fall victim to a brutal crime. The man is killed. The woman is raped and left for dead. The details of the crime unravel through the accounts of 4 characters who tell their...

A man and his wife fall victim to a brutal crime. The man is killed. The woman is raped and left for dead. The details of the crime unravel through the accounts of 4 characters who tell their versions of the story. Akira Kurosawa's first international hit, the winner of the 1951 Venice Film Festival's Golden Lion, is about the subjectivity of truth and the intransigence of memory. The film, based on a short story by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, changed cinema for all time by revolutionizing narrative technique, in presenting conflicting accounts of the same event.