This is the film the brought Japanese cinema to a world audience and became so well known that the word has entered the lexicon, meaning the unknowability of truth.
Beautifully photographed and structured. We "witness" a crime from four different perspectives and never really learn what happened. Each teller shades his account to make himself look better and hide his failings. K's point is that this is elemental human behavior and that the search for an absolute such as truth isn't possible given who/what we are.
Marred somewhat by the histrionic overacting endemic to Eastern films. Still, an intelligent treatment of a profound truth.
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