"Nobody's going to help a gaijin."
Continuing the Ridley Scott watch series, John and Curtis take on the underrated 1989 action film BLACK RAIN, starring Michael Douglas, Andy Garcia, Ken Takahura, Kate Capshaw, and the late but great Yūsaku Matsuda as the villainous "wild dog" Koji Sato. The boys talk about what they watched this week and their latest watchlist additions before discussing the movie. They chat about the action sequences, steamy Japan, cultural clashes, what makes this movie "dadcore," and find out why Scott didn't want to film in Japan again after BLACK RAIN.
TIME STAMPS
00:00:00 Introduction
00:02:06 What We Watched This Week
00:15:03 Watchlist Additions
00:20:27 BLACK RAIN (1989) Discussion (hot takes, tasty bits)
00:47:35 Our Ratings for BLACK RAIN
00:56:43 Coming Up Next!
MOVIES WE WATCHED
CURTIS: Lars and the Real Girl; Wasabi
JOHN: Beef (TV Series); The King of Comedy; The Adventures of Mark Twain; American Underdog
WATCHLIST ADDITIONS
CURTIS: Sisu; The Starling Girl; The Idol (HBO Series); Black Rain (1989 Japanese film)
JOHN: Phantom of the Paradise; The Legend of 1900; Vhyes
CREDITS AND PLUGS
Intro: Excerpt from VHS Trailer for BLACK RAIN (1989)
Outro: "The Final Confrontation" by Hans Zimmer (BLACK RAIN OST)
Quinn: @seatstruckreviews
Curtis: https://www.the-back-row.com/ - check out 'Runstedler's DVD Pick of the Month'
https://curtisrunstedler.ca/
John: johnnycakes.substack.com
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