With another great season comes great responsibility…to craft an entertaining theme that showcases a new crop of Oscar nominees and winners. For season six, Nick and Sophia are excited to announce a series on frequent cinematic collaborators, between directors and actors, cinematographers, costume designers, writers, and more! This inaugural episode features a look into the decades-long working relationship between two of cinema’s most talented artists: Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune.

Listen to find out why they are so widely beloved and remembered as two of the greats, including memorable scenes, shots, and quotes. Both films discussed today, Rashomon (10:31 ) and High and Low (24:45 ), continue to be studied and appreciated for their resounding themes and timeless messages and surely will be for many years to come.

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Music: “The Greatest Adventure” by Jonathan Adamich