Rashomon

The film Rashomon is Japanese film in which different versions of the same story is told through a statement to a court. There are 4 views given: the man who found the body (who tells his story twice), the Bandit, The Wife and the Husband (through a (person who can talk to dead people)).
This story shows the japanese culture in many ways:
The setting: The first group of men are in a old temple? and there are lots of shots of religious and cultural statues.
The costume: When the murder scene is being described, the costume of the wife and husband are typically tradition japanese clothes, with the woman in a kimono hiding her face and a man in a kimono with a long sword and bow and arrow. The hair and make-up is also typically japanese, and the womans eyebrows were painted in a way that was common at the time it was set.
Gender: the main woman is hysterical and sums up the general "old-time" opinion that woman were emotional, the men fall into certain stereotypes, the priest, the bandit and the ninja type guy.