In “Rashomon,” Akira Kurosawa’s 1950 masterwork of multiple perspectives, three people testifying at a trial dispute the events that left a Samurai dead and his wife raped. The wife says she stabbed ...

Social solidarity and even simple familial stability have become part of the package of private privileges available to the well-to-do. Behavioral surveys consistently show that, regardless of their ...

The Outrage, at best, is a 97-minute rehash of the vivid Japanese classic Rashomon. At worst, it is a clear case of Occidental death. In remaking Director Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 Oscar winner, the ...

A woman is raped in a forest by a bandit, and her samurai husband murdered. In court, the victim and her attacker give contradictory accounts of what happened, while the dead man, communicating ...