Tajōmaru claimed he had forgotten about it in the confusion after the fight, and lamented leaving it behind, as the dagger's pearl inlay made it very valuable. At the end of his testimony, he was asked about the expensive dagger used by The Wife to defend herself. In the end, Tajōmaru killed The Samurai, but then realized that The Wife had fled during the duel. They fought skillfully and fiercely, with Tajōmaru praising The Samurai's swordsmanship. Tajōmaru honorably set The Samurai free and dueled with him. She promised to go with whichever man won the battle. The Wife, ashamed, begged Tajōmaru to duel her husband to the death, to save her from the guilt, shame, and dishonor of having been with two men. Initially, she tried to defend herself with a dagger but Tajōmaru overpowered and then seduced her. In a grove, he tied The Samurai to a tree, then brought The Wife there with the intention of assaulting her. Tajōmaru, the notorious outlaw bandit, claimed that he tricked The Samurai to step off the mountain trail with him to look at a cache of ancient swords he had discovered. Both men were summoned to testify in court, where a fellow witness presented a captured bandit, who claimed to have followed the couple after coveting the woman when he glimpsed her traveling through the forest. The Priest claims he saw The Samurai traveling with his wife the same day the murder happened. Finally, he discovered The Samurai's body and fled to notify the authorities. He first found a woman's hat (which belonged to the samurai's wife), then a samurai cap (which belonged to The Samurai), then cut rope (which had been used to bind him), and then an amulet. The Woodcutter claims he found the body of a murdered samurai while looking for wood in the forest, three days earlier. The Woodcutter and The Priest are baffled, unable to understand how everyone involved could have given such radically different accounts of the same event. A commoner joins them to shelter from the rain, and they recount a disturbing story about an assault and murder that took place. A woodcutter and a priest are sitting beneath the Rashōmon city gate to stay dry during a downpour. The Rashomon effect is named after the film. Rashomon was the first Japanese film to receive a significant international reception it won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1951, was given an Academy Honorary Award at the 24th Academy Awards in 1952, and is considered one of the greatest films ever made. The film is known for a plot device that involves various characters providing subjective, alternative and contradictory versions of the same incident. Every element is largely identical, from the murdered samurai speaking through a Shinto psychic to the bandit in the forest, the monk, the assault of the wife and the dishonest retelling of the events in which everyone shows their ideal self by lying. Starring Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyō, Masayuki Mori, and Takashi Shimura as various people who describe how a samurai was murdered in a forest, the plot and characters are based upon Ryunosuke Akutagawa's short story " In a Grove", with the title and framing story being based on " Rashōmon", another short story by Akutagawa. Rashomon ( Japanese: 羅生門, Hepburn: Rashōmon) is a 1950 Jidaigeki psychological thriller- crime film directed and written by Akira Kurosawa, working in close collaboration with cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa.
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