(0:45) Background on Kurosawa Kiyoshi and the role of his movies on the arthouse/festival marketplace
(6:50) "Let's Cavell-patchwork it!" (a reference we will not go on to explain)
(24:20) TT: "You'll edit this part out, I hope." Dan: "Sure."
(31:30) On the importance of privilege and wholesomeness as specifically Japanese projections
(43:00) "Give me something as bled of local specificity as possible, please."
(44:00) On TT's Greyhound trip across the U.S. & the comforting bare minimum of sameness that is McDonald's food
(52:00) The intrusion of the Musical genre into the film, and question of sincerity vs. irony
(56:20) "The tourist camera is not about memory, it's about control." On the powerlessness of the tourist experience vs. the capitalist framing of tourism as empowering.
(1:06:10) "This might be racist, but she looks really Asian for a white woman"
(1:20:00) Which NBA player would Kurosawa Kiyoshi be? Who on the surface is chasing control and the perfect image but actually is at their best when they let their defenses down? (spoiler: it's Kevin Durant)