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Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, and with special guest Chris Lavery, This Just In is a subset of The 250 podcast, looking at notable new arrivals on the list of the 250 best movies of all-time, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users.

This time, Akira Kurusawa’s Sanjuro.

At time of recording, it was not ranked on the list of the best movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.

Show notes:

• Recorded 15th June 2019.
• Sanjuro at The Internet Movie Database.
• Follow Chris on Twitter.
• Listen to Chris discuss Yojimbo on The 250.
• Vili Maunula at Akira Kurusawa on the production and history of Sanjuro, September 2013.
• Brian Eggert at Deep Focus Reviews on the story behind of Sanjuro, July 2011.
• Michael Sragow at Criterion contextualises Sanjuro as a samurai epic, March 2010.
• Bosley Crowther at The New York Times on Sanjuro as a spoof of the conventions of the samurai epic, May 1963.
• Eric Barton at the BBC on the Japanese Christmas tradition of visiting KFC, December 2016.
• Lewis Goodall at the BBC on the career and times of Joseph Chamberlain, August 2016.
• The BBC offers a brief history (and exploration of the legacy of) Joseph Chamberlain, July 2014.
• Reiji Yoshida at The Japan Times on the rising and falling population statistics for postwar Japan, January 2015.
• Aya Homei on “Population and Birth Control in Postwar Japan” in Science, Technology, and Medicine in the Modern Japanese Empire, April 2016.
• Karl Smallwood at Fact Fiend on the iconic closing sequence of Sanjuro, December 2018.
• Bruce Bennett at The New York Sun on shooting the final duel in Sanjuro, June 2008.
• Nathan Rabin at The A.V. Club discusses the surreality of Gymkata, April 2012.
• Matthew Monagle at Film School Rejects on the enduring allure of Gymkata, August 2016.
• Adam Buxton interviews John Grant on The Adam Buxton Podcast, June 2019.
• The Doughboys discuss Ben and Jerry’s with The Sloppy Boys, June 2019.
• Follow The 250 on Twitter.
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