Packet 5: Tossup 15

At the end of a film, a man of this profession is told by his wife to join a river parade while she is on her deathbed. A man of this profession kills three men who drove his parents to suicide in a Kon Ichikawa film. A man of this profession argues with a woman while the two pace under cover across a rainy street in a scene bookended by “pillow shots.” Several (-5[1])people of this profession come to a seaside town where, years earlier, (15[3])their leader had a son with Oyoshi in (-5[1])(*) Yasujirō Ozu’s (10[1])Floating Weeds. (10[1])Members of this profession (10[1])who come (10[1])to Hiroshima include the hothead Kōji, who sleeps with the protagonist’s (10[1])wife (-5[1])before her (10[1])abrupt brain hemorrhage, (10[1])and a woman who uses Korean Sign Language, (10[3])in Ryusuke (10[3])Hamaguchi’s film (10[1])Drive My Car. (10[1])For 10 points, (10[3]-5[1])name this profession (-5[1])of Toshiro Mifune, (10[4])who worked (10[1])with (10[2])Akira (10[3]-5[1])Kurosawa. (10[3])■END■ (10[6]0[2])

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