This week, we’re back with Noel Thingvall, and we complete our Akira Kurosawa two-episode extravaganza! (If you did not catch Part One, you can catch it here!) If you would like to drink along, grab a bottle of Avalon Cabernet Sauvignon. Or perhaps Apothic Red. Just don’t drink too much, lest you start snoring like …


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This week, we’re back with Noel Thingvall, and we complete our Akira Kurosawa two-episode extravaganza! (If you did not catch Part One, you can catch it here!)


If you would like to drink along, grab a bottle of Avalon Cabernet Sauvignon. Or perhaps Apothic Red. Just don’t drink too much, lest you start snoring like Windy.


Show notes behind the cut!



Movies mentioned:

Hidden Fortress

The Bad Sleep Well

Yojimbo

Fistful of Dollars

Sanjuro

Human Centipede

Flag in Exile (book by David Weber)

High and Low

Redbeard

Shogun

Red Sun

Runaway Train

Tora! Tora! Tora!

Emperor of the North

Dodes’ka-den

Dora-heita

Dersu Uzala

Kagemusha

Dave

Ran

Dreams

Rhapsody in August

Madadayo

After the Rain

The Sea Is Watching

Samurai Seven (TV)


People mentioned:

Akira Kurosawa

Toshiro Mifune

Tatsuya Nakadai

David Weber

Mike Nichols

Richard Fleischer

Kinji Fukasaku

Toshio Masuda

Ishiro Honda

Shintaro Katsu

Steven Spielberg

Kei Kumai


Links:


Kurosawa’s paintings and movie frames side-by-side

http://flavorwire.com/271258/akira-kurosawas-paintings-and-movie-frames-side-by-side


Kurosawa’s whiskey commercial (complete with Coppola cameo)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-A2EH0vyd4


Thai poster for The Land that Time Forgot (click to see larger)


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