Rashomon Effect

Akira Kurosawa's 1950 film Rashomon, adapted from short stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, depicted a crime recounted in four contradictory ways. The film won the Golden Lion at the 1951 Venice Film Festival and introduced Japanese cinema to Western audiences. Anthropologist Karl Heider gave the phenomenon its formal name in his 1988 American Anthropologist article "The Rashomon Effect: When Ethnographers Disagree".