Setting the scene -- Portrait of an artist as filmmaker -- Rashomon : the problem of subjectivity -- Remaking Rashomon : from subjectivity to "the" truth -- The battle of the sexes : or, the one scenario when subjectivity is acceptable -- Permutations on the theme of murder : the search for solutions -- And on television ... -- A short interval : Rashomon and the desire lines of the imagination -- The group western -- The lone hero -- Cloning Kurosawa -- Conclusion : thinking with films