Wired Mesh

Highlights for Fledgling Japanese Filmmakers

Since I've been rambling on about comics influencing the movies and vice-versa, here's a McSweeney's vision of what would happen if Akira Kurosawa, of "Rashomon" fame, got his hands on that old moralistic warhorse Goofus and Gallant. "Goofus loved Jack Daniels. And Yukon Jack. He always wanted to do snakebites even though I don't think he liked them — just the name. He would do two and then switch to something else."