This time it's the back half of a pair of episodes on Kurosawa. As ever, we're talking about the films with the assumption that you'll have seen them, so beware the fearsome SPOILER. Mark picked the movies for Part I and Bob has picked the films for Part II. We also talk a little about Shane and A Fistful of Dollars. Enjoy!

00:10 Intro to Part 2
07:37 Yojimbo
10:36 A Fistful of Dollars
11:12 Accounts vary about exactly how much Kurosawa received, but he did win his lawsuit
14:41 "Gamblers" as code for "criminal"
16:14 Toshiro Mifune
18:05 Social commentary?
21:01 Spoilers for Shane
22:11 Seven Samurai vs Yojimbo
25:35 The shameless cribbing of Sergio Leone
27:10 Not knowing the history
28:12 High and Low
32:07 The second half is a second movie
33:55 Mifune and Nakadai
36:01 The villain
43:14 Takashi Shimura
43:46 Kagemusha
46:34 Solid casting/makeup
47:41 The accuracy/truthfulness of the story
49:57 Surrealism; possession?
55:21 Similar endings for Ran and Kagemusha
55:52 Mark argues that Ran surpasses Kagemusha as the sun outshines the moon
57:30 The Coppola (and Lucas) interview
59:13 The moment it all goes wrong
1:02:30 Cavalry vs firearms true to the real battle
1:03:40 Picking a favorite from across both episodes
1:05:42 High and Low remake?
1:08:20 The next episode topic

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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