In July 2006, a Japanese court ruled that all Japanese films produced before 1953, including Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon (1950), are part of the Public Domain.
Here is Rashomon, Kurosawa's adaptation of Ryunosuke Akutagawa's short story dealing with the subjectivity of eyewitness evidence in the solving of a crime. This is one of the first examples of storytelling from multiple characters' points of view, and has been imitated dozens of times since in far lesser works by mostly western directors.
This is the first and best, and is among Kurosawa's finest work.
The second link takes you to a Google video stream of what appears to be the Criterion Collection DVD. There's also the option to download for video iPod. I can't recommend this 84 minutes highly enough. Please watch. Kurosawa was the master.
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So I was going through some old CD's and I rediscovered my Absolunacy - Iraq! cd... :-) What songs might I credit to you?
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