Uploaded March 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
(Akira Kurosawa, Japan 1961, 110 min.)
As Media Asset Manager for the San Francisco Ballet, Rachel Bauer (Selznick '09) looks at screens all day, handling still and moving image files. But, when she wants to unwind, her mind goes toward classic film, and she sits down to talk with Jared about YOJIMBO, Akira Kurosawa's seminal samurai film. A lynchpin of cross-cultural impact, YOJIMBO is inspired by Dashiell Hammett's novel Red Harvest, before the film itself goes on to inspire A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS (and the entire spaghetti Western genre) as well as films like MILLER'S CROSSING and LAST MAN STANDING. Jared and Rachel also touch on THE MANDALORIAN as well as Kurosawa's masterful camera and casting.
(Akira Kurosawa, Japan 1961, 110 min.)
As Media Asset Manager for the San Francisco Ballet, Rachel Bauer (Selznick '09) looks at screens all day, handling still and moving image files. But, when she wants to unwind, her mind goes toward classic film, and she sits down to talk with Jared about YOJIMBO, Akira Kurosawa's seminal samurai film. A lynchpin of cross-cultural impact, YOJIMBO is inspired by Dashiell Hammett's novel Red Harvest, before the film itself goes on to inspire A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS (and the entire spaghetti Western genre) as well as films like MILLER'S CROSSING and LAST MAN STANDING. Jared and Rachel also touch on THE MANDALORIAN as well as Kurosawa's masterful camera and casting.
