Word: rashomonic
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...Kurosawa's Rashomon premieres...
Cannon's verdict, as his title suggests, ultimately finds the LAPD and the judicial system guilty of negligence (as, for example, in failing to train officers adequately in ways to subdue an out-of-control suspect) and of a certain institutional incompetence in administering justice. A multidimensional Rashomon, of course, adds up to something out of chaos theory. Cannon has integrated both the facts and the myths into a work of superbly professional journalism...
...actor in epic Japanese films; in Mitaka, Japan. In his 16-film collaboration with director Akira Kurosawa, Mifune came to embody the heroic, archetypical loner with his rough features and angry intensity. America had cowboys; Japan had Mifune, wielding a sword and his trademark glare in the Oscar-winning Rashomon, The Seven Samurai and Yojimbo. Although Mifune often played the Pacific enemy in American films like Midway (1976), his menace needed no translation. It was his Japanese films that stuck with audiences, inspiring such imitators as Clint Eastwood and even Jim Belushi...
...Honor? Answer: maybe yes, maybe no. Heroism must be investigated before it can be officially rewarded and--talk about ironies--the semidisgraced Serling is assigned to the inquiry. Plagued by guilty nightmares about his own conduct and drinking too much as a result, he is soon waist-deep in Rashomon country. For the survivors of the episode tell conflicting stories, some of which hint--hold on for more ironies--that Walden might actually have behaved badly. Or might have been herself victimized by friendly fire...
...Justice (Warner Books; $24.95), written with Larkin Warren. There are no bombshells here, but both lawyers take the reader on a breathless you-are-there ride, evoking once again all the emotions of that fevered epoch in this country's history. Which emotions, of course, depends on whose Rashomon-like tale you are reading at the time...