Amazon.com Essentials:
This 1950 film by Akira Kurosawa is more than a classic: it's
a cinematic archetype that has served as a template for many a film
since. (Its most direct influence was on a Western remake, The Outrage,
starring Paul Newman and directed by Martin Ritt.) In essence, the
facts surrounding a rape and murder are told from four different and
contradictory points of view, suggesting the nature of truth is
something less than absolute. The cast, headed by Kurosawa's favorite
actor, Toshiro Mifune, is superb. --Tom Keogh
