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Wu-Tang member and hip-hop producer-turned-film director, The RZA joins Miranda Sawyer to discuss the use of music in his film work.

A founding member of the legendary hip-hop group, Wu-Tang Clan, RZA first got involved in films when he met Jim Jarmusch, who asked him to provide the soundtrack for Ghost Dog鈥揟he Way of the Samurai. He then studied filmmaking shadowing Quentin Tarantino while composing the music for Tarantino's Kill Bill Vol. 1. Since then, he鈥檚 directed three features: the Kung-fu flick The Man with the Iron Fists and the musical Love Beats Rhymes, and now his latest film, Cut Throat City, a heist-thriller set in New Orleans鈥� Ninth Ward.

Miranda Sawyer will be chatting through his soundtrack and film work as well as his love of the martial art film genre.

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Sun 18 Oct 2020 13:00
麻豆社 Radio 6 Music

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Music Played

  • Ghostface Killah & RZA

    Fighting for Equality

  • RZA

    You Can't Stop Me Now

  • Lil Wayne

    Dr. Carter

    • Decon.

  • The Black Keys & RZA

    The Baddest Man Alive

    • The Man With The Iron Fists.
    • Sony.
    • 1.

  • Frances Yip

    Green Is The Mountain

    • Soul Temple Entertainment.

  • Gheorghe Zamfir

    The Lonely Shepherd

    • A Band Apart, Maverick, Warner Bros..

  • Isaac Hayes

    Run Fay Run

  • Tom Waits

    Jockey Full Of Bourbon

    • RAIN DOGS.
    • Island.

  • Earth, Wind & Fire

    I'll Write a Song for You

    • Earth Wind & Fire - The Love Songs.
    • Columbia.

Broadcast

  • Sun 18 Oct 2020 13:00
    麻豆社 Radio 6 Music