The Influence of Akira Kurosawa’s RASHOMON

Reprinted from the Indpendent Weekly In my tender elementary school days, I found myself oddly troubled by an episode of Alvin and the Chipmunks. Titled “Every Chipmunk Tells a Story,” it involved Alvin, Simon and Theodore telling a series of conflicting flashbacks about how Dave’s piano came to be destroyed and filled with rice pudding. …