A black-and-white silent film frame in the style of Takeshi Kitano, a ragged ronin and a finely dressed kabuki performer walking side by side along a forest path, film grain, with serif type across the center of the frame reading "Rashomon is now considered one of the greatest films ever made and among the most influential movies from the 20th century. It pioneered the Rashomon effect, a plot device that involves various characters providing subjective, alternative, and contradictory versions of the same incident. In 1999, critic Andrew Johnston asserted that 'the film's title has become synonymous with its chief narrative conceit'." --ar 16:9 --v 8