Lists
- ranked 13 in Edward Copeland's Satyajit Ray Memorial Anything-But-Definitive List of Non-English Language Films
- ranked 13 in They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? 1000 Greatest Films (August 2005)
- ranked 14 in They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? 1000 Greatest Films (March 2006)
- ranked 15 in They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? 1000 Greatest Films (December 2006)
- ranked 63 in The IMDb Top 250
- ranked 290 in Empire 500 Greatest Movies (2008)
- one of 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die
- one of 101^w102 Movies You Must See Before...
- one of Best Foreign Film Academy Award Winners
- one of Guardian 1,000 films to see before you die
- one of Leonard Maltin's 100 "Must See" Films of the 20th Century
- one of Movieline's 100 Best Foreign Films
- one of The New York Times Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made
One of Kurosawa's best, and the progenitor of the method -- used in Reservoir Dogs etc. -- of repeating the same events from different perspectives. In this case it's a harrowing look at betrayal and human indecency, wrapped in a layered meta-narrative about unreliable narrators.