Top 5 Unreliable Narrators and Kurosawa’s Rashomon | #1055
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🗓️ 6 March 2026
⏱️ 120 minutes
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Summary
This week’s Top 5 explores cinema’s most unreliable narrators, characters who bend, twist, or completely invent the truth. Adam and Josh pair the list with a fresh look at Kurosawa’s RASHOMON, the film that set the template for them all – and a potential 2026 Pantheon inductee.
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Intro (00:00:00-00:03:18)
Top 5 Unreliable Narrators (00:03:19-01:05:17)
Filmspotting Family (01:05:18-01:11:08)
Next Week, Notes, Poll (01:11:09-01:18:16)
Pantheon Project: Rashomon (01:18:17-01:56:39)
Credits / New Releases (01:56:40-01:59:51)
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| 0:32.4 | You're not interested in art? |
| 0:33.6 | No. |
| 0:34.0 | Now look, we're going to do this thing. |
| 0:35.4 | We're going to have a conversation. |
| 0:38.8 | From Chicago, this is film spotting. |
| 0:41.3 | I'm Josh Larson, and I'm Adam Kempinard. |
| 0:44.1 | Teddy, don't believe his lies. |
| 0:47.3 | He is the one. |
| 0:49.0 | Kill him. |
| 0:50.0 | I finally found him. |
| 0:52.0 | How long have I been looking? |
| 0:53.9 | Not all movie narrators are created equal. |
| 0:57.1 | Some talk to us straight, and some turn out to be not so trustworthy. |
| 1:01.4 | This week's film spotting top five unreliable narrators, plus Akira Kurosawa's 1950 masterpiece Roshoman by my count four unreliable narrators in that one. |
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