Akira Kurosawa Part I

And the Winner Should Have Been...

First of a pair of episodes about the great Japanese director Akira Kurosawa. Mark is dipping into his ouevre for the first time and Bob is revisiting many of his favorite movies. Featuring SPOILERS throughout, but also the return of the clicky pen! Listen at your own risk.
00:10 Episode introduction
04:08 Seven Samurai
19:50 Wrong, Bob; three left
20:10 Wrong again; 4 of 7
20:34 (Seems to be an audio error in the original recording dropping a fraction of a second...)
25:14 The ending of Seven Samurai being more cynical than the ending of The Magnificent Seven
26:20 Bob realizes his mistake from 6 1/2 minutes earlier
27:41 Ran
39:20 Kurosawa's diminishing eyesight
42:08 Tatsuya Nakadai
44:36 Ran makes Mark's top ten films
45:22 Ikiru
48:44 Spoiler for the final moments of Ikiru
57:25 Bob rants about human nature for a while
1:01:50 Wrapping up

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Music:
Intro and Outro music excerpted without alteration other than length and volume from AcidJazz by Kevin McLeod under a Creative Commons (CC BY 3.0) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode