In this episode of Inside the Box, Trevor and David look into Hiroshi Inagaki's The Samurai Trilogy, featuring Musashi Miyamoto, Duel at Ichijoji Temple, and Duel at Ganryu Island.
Tag - Toshiro Mifune
Trevor Berrett
Criterion Reflections – Episode 77 – Terence Young’s Red Sun
David and guests team up to form the greatest podcasting machine the West has ever known!
David Blakeslee
Criterion Reflections – Episode 12 – Kihachi Okamoto’s ZATOICHI MEETS YOJIMBO
David is joined by Robert Taylor and Jon Laubinger to talk about this epic Shintaro Katsu/Toshiro Mifune collaboration.
The Eclipse Viewer – Episode 57 – Postwar Kurosawa [Part 2]
David and Trevor fearlessly (or perhaps idiotically) accept the challenge of discussing two films suffused with madness, obsession and paranoia as they conclude their coverage of the most popular volume in the Eclipse...
The Eclipse Viewer – Episode 56 – Postwar Kurosawa [Part 1]
David and Trevor retrace Akira Kurosawa's steps as he explores the challenges Japan confronted in the late 1940s.
James McCormick
A Journey Through the Eclipse Series: Akira Kurosawa’s The Idiot
Last week on my Criterion Reflections blog, I published a review of Le Notti Bianche, Luchino Visconti’s 1957 adaptation of a short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Through another of the curious synchronicities forged...
Rudie Obias