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Top 5 Unreliable Narrators and Kurosawa’s Rashomon (#1055)

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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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