Word: rashomonic
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...thing with Kerrey is whether there was incoming fire. Was there or not? That's a Rashomon story. The only mitigating factor is that all villagers were suspect in war zones. We were fighting an enemy army, but we were also fighting villagers. These things don't take place in slow motion. I know Kerrey, and I think he's an upstanding citizen. It would be hard for me to accept that he cold-bloodedly killed villagers. He was a lieutenant on one of his first combat missions. There could have been an element of panic. If it went...
...half-century now, since Kurosawa's Rashomon triumphed at the Venice Film Festival and introduced Western audiences to the radiance of his country's film tradition, stories about the Japanese have mostly been told by the Japanese. With so much of the genuine article on tap, viewers have no need to get an image of Japan from Americans with a message or a grudge. And if the glory days of the nation's art film are gone, the export industry for filmed entertainment has never been more robust. Every kid cherishes Pokémon. Every lurker in specialized video stores...