Hiro Murai’s Adventures in Moviegoing

One of the major forces behind some of the most talked-about pop-culture sensations of the last decade—from the zeitgeist-capturing music video for Childish Gambino’s “This Is America” to the acclaimed series “Atlanta,” “The Bear,” and “Widow’s Bay”—multi-Emmy-winning director and producer Hiro Murai is a creative powerhouse with a deep, lifelong love of cinema. In this episode of Adventures in Moviegoing, he joins Chris Ryan (editorial director of “The Ringer” and cohost of “The Watch” podcast) for an entertaining and insightful conversation about the creative overlap between his life, his work, and the films he has watched and loved, from early memories of movie-watching in Japan with his cinephile father to the transformative influence of cinematic visionaries like Spike Jonze, Quentin Tarantino, and Wim Wenders.