Filmed 2023-12-11
Koji Yakusho
The actor
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The legendary actor shares his love for the Akira Kurosawa classics Red Beard and Ikiru, recalls how Tatsuya Nakadai was his teacher when he first began acting, admires the visual storytelling of City Lights, and shouts out his latest collaborator, Wim Wenders.
What they took
7 cases, in the order Criterion lists them. None of them is a box set, so the count of choices and the count of films reached are the same.
Least-picked choice here: Red Beard, taken by 1 other visits.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Red Beard | Akira Kurosawa | 1965 |
| 2 |  Ikiru | Akira Kurosawa | 1952 |
| 3 |  Harakiri | Masaki Kobayashi | 1962 |
| 4 |  The Funeral | Juzo Itami | 1984 |
| 5 |  Cure | Kiyoshi Kurosawa | 1997 |
| 6 |  City Lights | Charles Chaplin | 1931 |
| 7 |  Paris, Texas | Wim Wenders | 1984 |
Japan accounts for five of their seven single films.
Closest taste
Jaccard overlap against every other visit, counted on what came off the shelf rather than on films, so a shared box set counts once rather than as the films inside it.
403 visits compared · 31 filmed-together pairs excluded
Their decades
Their seven single films with a release year on record, against where every guest's single-film picks land. Box sets are left out of both sides, so the two bars measure the same thing.