Rashomon [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

"Akira Kurosawa's classic examination of, as Pauline Kael put it, ""the relativism, the unknowability of truth"" and the mutability of human nature, won the Golden Lion at the 1951 Venice Film Festival and the Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award of 1952. It also opened the western market to Japanese films and made international stars out of Toshiro Mifune and Machiko Kyo. Set in 11th-century Japan, the film examines a brutal rape and murder from four different perspectives. Three men h...