Reviewed by Kathleen Amboy.  Viewed on DVD.   Three days ago, while strolling through the forest, a woodcutter (Takashi Shimura) discovers a woman’s hat strewn over a branch.  Ambling on, in motion to the non-diegetic drum beat, as bright sunlight cuts through the trees, he approaches a crime scene, and to his horror, it is the body of a murdered samurai.   … Continue reading Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa, 1950): Japan