Cody’s away, so we spend like 10 minutes talking about video games at the top of this episode. The last of Kurosawa’s samurai epics, RAN recontextualizes King Lear, widening the scope of Shakespeare’s text to show the effect of karma on the world, not just its tragic players. In this episode, we discuss what it’s like to know this is one of the greatest films ever made while also knowing it’s not the best Kurosawa movie; the personality of the spaces in RAN and other Kurosawa classics; and how the women of RAN are built to embody the karmic imbalance of Hidetora’s lifelong warmongering. Links: - Buy tickets to “Anime’s Great Genius: Satoshi Kon” (March 2022 at the Trylon Cinema): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/animes-great-genius-satoshi-kon/ - Buy tickets to “Ishirô Honda’s Godzilla” (May 2022 at the Trylon Cinema): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/ishiro-hondas-godzilla/ Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch! Buy tickets and support the Trylon at https://www.trylon.org/. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: "Hell's Picture Scroll" by Toru Takemitsu from the RAN soundtrack. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 163: RAN (1985) 0:45 - #EldenRingChat 4:36 - #PokémonChat 8:18 - The episode actually starts 10:13 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 12:41 - Jason’s thoughts 18:57 - Harry’s thoughts 27:35 - Aaron’s thoughts 34:22 - The changing scope of the movie, ensemble, and its story 45:11 - The controlled, chaotic, mesmerizing beauty of the burning castle scene 51:26 - Physicality and location 58:13 - Lady Sué 1:02:11 - Lady Kaede
