Content Warning: The films covered in this episode depict various scenes of sexual assault. Listeners who would not like to engage with this kind of material are encouraged to skip this one  

200 eps! So we’re doing 200 movies to celebrate! Actually, just 6 movies. But there’s enough good stuff in these 6 for 200 normal films. Get ready for…Kenji Misumi’s Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance (1972), Kenji Misumi’s Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx (1972), Kenji Misumi’s Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades (1972), Buichi Saitō’s Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril (1972), Kenji Misumi’s Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons (1973), and Yoshiyuki Kuroda’s Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell (1974)

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If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Wayne Wang’s Chan is Missing (1982).

Powell and Pressberger are at it again with another war-time charmer, this time set in rural Scotland!  Local characters, local legends, local color, and local love sidetrack a focused young woman determined to get where she’s going!

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If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing… ahem… Kenji Misumi’s Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance (1972), Kenji Misumi’s Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx (1972), Kenji Misumi’s Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades (1972), Buichi Saitō’s Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril (1972), Kenji Misumi’s Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons (1973), and Yoshiyuki Kuroda’s Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell (1974).

One of the hosts is almost positive that Robert Altman’s cutting satire of the Hollywood studio system has already been covered on the podcast. But that might just be due to the fact that he watches The Player too often.

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If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s I Know Where I’m Going! (1945).

Dune. Arrakis. Podcast episode. We’re not the first to reassess David Lynch’s legendarily-disowned adaptation of Frank Herbert’s science fiction classic novel, but we’re definitely the most recent (at time of this recording).

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If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Robert Altman’s The Player (1992).

This 1966 Jack Nicholson-penned and Jack Nicholson-starring micro-western has all of the earmarks of a shaggy Head-era wannabe freak-out.  But wait… Who’s that over there?  Is that… Harry Dean Stanton wearing an eyepatch?  Maybe, just maybe…

If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing David Lynch’s Dune (1984).

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The podcast FINALLY gets to discuss the master of French noir, Jean-Pierre Melville himself.  Fedoras and trench coats?  A jazzy score?  Twists that you see coming and twists that you don’t?  A lesson in hard-won and even harder-boiled loyalties?  Mais bien sur!

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If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be watching Monte Hellman’s Ride in the Whirlwind (1966).

We’ve podcasted things you people wouldn’t believe. Like the international theatrical release version of Ridley Scott’s tech noir stunner starring Harrison Ford doing his uh… best?… voice-over narration. Mike picks this for Charlie’s annual incept-date show!

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If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le Doulos (1962).

Is the solution to having not enough Lady Snowblood, just making more Lady Snowblood?  The very concept of “the sequel” is methodically hunted down and eviscerated in this follow-up episode on a director Toshiya Fujita’s own follow-up to one of the best action movies of all time.

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If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (1982).

Mike likes the sword hidden in a parasol. Charlie likes that it takes place during the Meiji era. But who are we kidding? The best part is that Toshiya Fujita’s visually dynamic action/revenge film really lives up to the title. Lady. Snow. Blood.

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If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Toshiya Fujita’s Lady Snowblood: Love Song of Vengeance (1974). 

Satyajit Ray's first installment of the Apu Trilogy, reigns as one of the greatest depictions of humanity ever recorded on film.  But does it live up to all of the hype?  Yes.  It does.  What a stupid question.

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If you'd like to watch ahead for next week's film, we will be discussing and reviewing Toshiya Fujita's Lady Snowblood (1973).