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We are embarking on a three movie exploration of the same story! First up is a return to the great Akira Kurosawa. His film, Yojimbo, borrows heavily from American Westerns and American film noir. But it has a badass samurai twist courtesy of Toshiro Mifune. We enjoy this relatively light offering from the Japanese master filmmaker as a prelude to exploring the work of another, quite different master.
Next up, we’ll be watching A Fistful of Dollars!
| Yojimbo (1961) | |
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Rating: 8.2/10 (130,795 votes) Director: Akira Kurosawa Writer: Akira Kurosawa, Ryûzô Kikushima Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Eijirô Tôno, Tatsuya Nakadai Runtime: 110 min Rated: Not Rated Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller Released: 13 Sep 1961 |
| Plot: A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town. | |
Jena had a last minute conflict so we were forced to enlist an emergency stunt Jena. Fortunately, Tim’s wife Pat was available. We had to make an alteration in movie (Pat has seen Man on Wire) so we pulled out 
This week, we tackle Jaques Tati’s comedy Playtime. In a unique twist, neither Tim nor Jena had seen the film. It is also our first “foreign language” film although the fact the movie is French is hardly relevant as the dialogue is almost completely unnecessary. If you’ve never seen the movie and you have Hulu Plus, that would be a great way to check it out. Even if you haven’t seen the film, you should totally listen to the episode as Playtime may be the most spoiler proof movie ever created.
We actually got to watch this week’s movie in a movie theatre! 
Holy crap! This movie is so long we had to split this episode into three parts! Lawrence of Arabia is an undisputed classic no matter what the length so Melissa and Tim couldn’t wait to show it to Jena. There is significant geeking about the score, the flimmaking and Peter O’Toole. If you have never seen this movie, you have missed one of the great pleasures of film geekdom. Don’t let yourself miss out for too much longer!
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