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Podcast: Alternate Ending - Movie Review Podcast
Episode: Spoiler Alert: Kagemusha and Ran // Tom & Jerry // Coming 2 America // The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run // Raya and the Last Dragon // Language Lessons // Yes Day
Description: Our next podcast topic comes courtesy of Patreon subscriber Andrew, who had a simple request: watch and discuss two of the richest, most exhausting costume dramas ever filmed. It's a Spoiler Alert this time around, as we dive deep into the late epics by the legendary Japanese director Kurosawa Akira: the 1980 Palme d'Or winner Kagemusha, and the monumental King Lear adaptation Ran, from 1985. That's almost six hours of the most sumptuous pageantry Japanese cinema (or world cinema, for that matter) has to offer, and six hours of the most morally complicated anti-war fury as well. It's no small task...