Akutagawa
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In 1921, Ryunosuke Akutagawa published his seminal short story "In a Grove," which would inspire the film director Akira Kurosawa's 1951 film Rashomon. The story unfolds in a courtroom, where a man, a woman, and a ghost all recount their versions of the story. As each narrator tells the story, we hear events from their point of view: the reader is left unsure of what the truth really is, as each character has a motive in having the listener believe that things happened the way they said.
Truth is a matter of from whose perspective the story is told. The 2001 film Tape has a similar plot, as three high school acquaintances meet in a hotel room to recount the events of an evening from their youth. The plot revolves around what happened between two of the characters, and the third character's motivation in having the event recounted.
