In this episode, Matt Alt (⁠⁠⁠Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World⁠⁠⁠) and Patrick Macias (⁠⁠⁠TokyoScope: The Japanese Cult Film Companion⁠⁠⁠) celebrate the return of Takeshi’s Castle and the upcoming film KUBI with a look at Takeshi Kitano’s (aka Beat Takeshi’s) favorite films of all time! They include:

1. Children of Paradise (Marcel Carne, 1945)

2. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)

3. A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick, 1971)

4. Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)

5. To Live and Die in L.A. (William Friedkin, 1985)

6. Wild at Heart (David Lynch, 1990)

7. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Sam Peckinpah, 197)

8. Darkman (Sam Raimi, 1990)

9. Crazy Thunder Road (Sogo Ishii, 1980)

10. The Railroad Man (Pietro Germi, 1956)

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