81 - Dead Leaves / Redline

It’s heritage not hate round hurr. We’re stumbling over how to pronounce Japanese names to bring you Hiroyuki Imaishi’s 2004 crude and colorful manic anime Dead Leaves AND Takeshi Koike’s directorial debut in collaboration with Katsuhito Ishii, 2009’s Redline, perhaps the coolest movie ever made. On this episode: audiobook narration, Ren & Stimpy, stained glass animation, throat exercises, the value of fun, why ‘made by hand’ will forever trump the machines, censorship compromises that turned out for the worst, the Fast & Furious franchise, Fight Club, effective satire, and what’s going on at patreon.com/agitator