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87 - Tampopo: Food, Sex, & Eating the Soul
Tampopo (1985)
Dir. Juzo Itami
Starring Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto, Koji Yakusho, and Ken Watanabe
On this episode:
How time works and what is now considered classic, the luckiest child actor ever, calling actors by the movies they're in, the Patreon economy, cyberpunk and weeb marketing, having no takes, "Black Pander," getting a kick out of being wrong, curiosity vs morality brain, the freedom and importance of being off social media, being wary of art communities, growing a thriving and organic collective, the ritual of eating ramen, people's various relationships to food, the cinematography and tonal shifts of the ramen western, giving kids sweets, evolution of taste, food and sex, X-rated content with a G-rated vibe, Tampopo's Cannibal Holocaust scene,
how to be a respectful soul eater, synthetic meat, finding your ladder, the stakes of leveling up, modern vs classic filmmaking,
strategically utilizing your techniques and gimmicks, Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning, Lexi Alexander, finding gems in B movies and normiecore, and a critique of shareholder capitalism.
More at patreon.com/agitator
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Tampopo (1985)
Dir. Juzo Itami
Starring Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto, Koji Yakusho, and Ken Watanabe
On this episode:
How time works and what is now considered classic, the luckiest child actor ever, calling actors by the movies they're in, the Patreon economy, cyberpunk and weeb marketing, having no takes, "Black Pander," getting a kick out of being wrong, curiosity vs morality brain, the freedom and importance of being off social media, being wary of art communities, growing a thriving and organic collective, the ritual of eating ramen, people's various relationships to food, the cinematography and tonal shifts of the ramen western, giving kids sweets, evolution of taste, food and sex, X-rated content with a G-rated vibe, Tampopo's Cannibal Holocaust scene,
how to be a respectful soul eater, synthetic meat, finding your ladder, the stakes of leveling up, modern vs classic filmmaking,
strategically utilizing your techniques and gimmicks, Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning, Lexi Alexander, finding gems in B movies and normiecore, and a critique of shareholder capitalism.
More at patreon.com/agitator