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THIS WEEK: Sven and Van bring you a wonderful Christmas special about a classic Japanese horror flick and its commentary on post-WWII Japanese society! Hooray! Sven’s facial blindness eclipses Van’s; we chat about the strong points of visual storytelling; we have a lengthy sidebar on nuclear radiation in Japanese and Western fiction; we realize one of our favorite video games has to be referencing the very movie we’re covering; Van curses Sven with forbidden biology; and, for the love of Christmas, don’t let it set in!

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The short story that Matango is based on, The Voice In The Night, can be found on Wikisource.

TOPICS:

• Matango (1963)


• The film’s localization


• Ishiro Honda and his legacy


• William H. Hodgson’s The Voice In The Night


• Annihilation


• Dramatis Personae


• Visual storytelling through shot composition


• Lord of the Flies


• Gushing about set design, ft. spooky-ass ghost ships


• The Lucky Dragon 5


• Watchmen and the culture of scifi after the atomic bomb


• The food problem


• Mushroom people (meeple?)


• Shirley Jackson’s The Sundial


• Class warfare dynamics and the resentment of social status


• No Exit


• Yoshida’s descent and Sakuta’s motives


• The dissolution of the crew


• The Matangos’ suit design


• Kenji’s escape from the island & the finale


• Sven learns that parasites are bad


• Did we enjoy this?

MUSIC:

• “Fight! Seven Riders!! Showa Rider Taisen” – Kamen Rider x Kamen Rider Fourze & OOO: Movie War Megamax


• RIDER CHIPS – “Fight! Seven Riders!” – Pachinko Kamen Rider: Full Throttle

NEXT WEEK: Introducing the last commander in V3 and our secondary protagonist. Along with Marshall Armor, it’s time to meet the fourth of our Legendary Seven: Riderman.

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