Sansho Dayu (1954) & Slumdog Millionaire (2008)

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English - May 20, 2021 18:00 - 2 hours - 143 MB
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Previous Episode: 'Wild Strawberries' (1957) & 'The Bucket List' (2007)

Next Episode: The Mother and the Whore (1973) & Micki & Maude (1984)

This week, Finn & Uther watch Sansho Dayu (1954), Kenji Mizoguchi's beautiful and troubling folktale of mercy and greed, and Slumdog Millionaire (2008), Danny Boyle's worst film so, of course, it won him his Oscar.

Topics covered: Uther's fan edit of The Little Mermaid 2 to insert Vincent Cassel. Jérémie Renier. Manifestos. All the films Michael Bay has made about the human organ trade. How lucky we are to live at the same time in history as The RZA. All second-stringers they filled out I, Claudius with. German directors' names. What the most international movies are. Sword hazards. The best Blade film. Finn's Yu-Gi-Oh! tattoo. Shrek Discourse discourse. Films with almost no stakes. Uther's exhaustive thoughts on Studio Ghibli's future under Goro Miyazaki.

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