 The seminal 1950 Japanese film "Rashomon", based on the Japanese short story "In a Grove" (1921), utilizes the flashback-within-a-flashback technique.The story unfolds in flashback as the four witnesses in the story—the bandit, the murdered samurai, his wife, and the nameless woodcutter—recount the events of one afternoon in a grove.But it is also a flashback within a flashback, because the accounts of the witnesses are being retold by a woodcutter and a priest to a ribald commoner as they wait out a rainstorm in a ruined gatehouse.