Rashomon

"Rashomon(羅生門)" is a quite famous gate which existed in ancient Kyoto. It is said the gate was located near current Kyoto station. This film describes egotism of ordinary people. One day, there was a murder and a samurai was killed. Some people including two suspects and two witnesses were brought to the police, and they tried to explain what happened. However, three of them told totally different stories each other. Afterwards, the two witnesses went to Rashomon on the way to home in order to wait until heavy rain stopped, and started discussing this weird experience. They criticise egotism of people and they think there is nobody who we can trust nowadays. The director is "Akira Kurosawa" and this film was one of first Japanese films which won important prize in famous film festivals such as Venice or in American Academy Awards.