Do you have an itch? It might be a Rashomon!

Rashomon is considered to be one of Akutagawa's great short stories as it is equally considered to be one of Kurasawa's great films. Both are, however, boring, slow, and confusing. Seriously. The original story ends with the corpse of the murdered (maybe he was) samurai speaking to the investigator through a spirit medium, dispassionately explaining his side of the events. For its part, the movies is carried on the broad shoulders of Toshiro Mifune, who plays the bandit and is bound and seated for much of his performance. Both are a testament to their creators and show how far ahead of their contemporaries they were. In the Grove was written in the Twenties, i think, and Rashomon was made in the Fifties. Both used an uncharacteristically nonsequential narrative almost entirely alien to their respective art forms at the time.
But both are boring and confusing, like i said earlier.
Here's a graph about the movie.
And here's a link to a guy explaining (ruining) the film). enjoy.