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Synopsis (spoiler free): Three men gather together in the ruins of an old Japanese gate house to escape a rainstorm.

Indeed it's story was so revolutionary and influential that the film has become shorthand for this type of tale (the Rashomon effect), and has been used numerous times both in film and TV The Usual Suspects, Hero and episodes of The Simpsons, The X-Files, Leverage, Star Trek: The Next Generation an...

Story : Two men who have heard and seen a story about a murdered man tell a stranger who is staying with them the tale.

[i]Rashomon[/i] is one of my favorites for a whole helluva lot of reasons. First is the casting. Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, and Minoru Chiaki were in a lot of Kurosawa’s films and they were always perfect for the roles they were cast for.