Set in the Middle Ages, the nature of truth and subjective reality are probed in a series of flashbacks from four viewpoints (a bandit, the bride, the samurai's ghost and a woodcutter) to present the case history of a man's murder and the rape of his wife by a bandit. Based on 'Yabu no naka' (= 'In a grove') and 'Rashōmon and other stories' by Ryunosuki Akutagawa.