F Minus by Tony Carrillo for September 19, 2016
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September 20, 2016
Transcript:
woman: I couldn't care less about the hairline. I wish you'd do something about the receding moustache.
Excuse me? That “receding” mustache is in fact one modeled after the Kurosawa triad – three actors who were iconic in Akira Kurosawa’s most famous films: Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki and the most famous of the three, Toshiro Mifune – and all three sported mustaches like that during their time in Kurosawa’s films (Mifune in Rashomon, Chiaki in Kunimiso-ju/Throne of Blood, and Shimura in Seven Samurai).