{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/5bd718567438762130b4f175/603e712fe412ee6e47c019af?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Talking about Ran (1985) with Jessica Chiba!","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/5bd718567438762130b4f175/1665766953150-35cb3c7ffced06aff48d327a0e59c725.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>On this Learesque<strong> </strong>episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George welcome Jessica Chiba to discuss Akira Kurosawa's Ran (1985), starring Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu and Mieko Harada. We recorded this episode a few months back and were going to release it a little later, but Ran is currently on Amazon Prime, so what better time to celebrate this film than now? Topics discussed: must we mean what we say?; the purpose of fools; utter hopelessness; love. Plus, we briefly imagine what an Akira Kurosawa Shakespearean comedy might look like.</p><p><br></p><p>Topics not discussed: The films of Alexander Kluge. Sigh. Maybe one day . . .</p><p><br></p><p>Dr. Jessica Chiba is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham's Shakespeare Institute. More about her fascinating research on Shakespeare, philosophy and translation (and untranslatability!) can be found here: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/shakespeare/staff/profile.aspx?ReferenceId=179549 </p>","author_name":"Liam Billingham, Shaun Seneviratne, George Fragopoulos"}