ABSTRACT
One doubts very much that Kurosawa was deeply interested in objective truth in this or in any other film. This is because the why is always implied. And in none of his pictures is Kurosawa even slightly interested in the why of the matter. Instead, always, how. This offers a clue. The level of objective truth is not the truly interesting one. Much more interesting is the level of subjective truth. If the truth searched for becomes subjective, then no-one lies, and the stories are wildly at variance.
