Round 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 people of this profession come to a seaside town where, years earlier, their leader had a son with Oyoshi in (-5[1])(*) Yasujirō Ozu’s (10[1])Floating Weeds. (10[1])Members of this profession who come to Hiroshima include the hothead Kōji, who sleeps with the protagonist’s wife before her abrupt brain hemorrhage, and a woman who uses Korean Sign Language, (10[1])in Ryusuke (10[1])Hamaguchi’s film Drive My Car. For 10 points, name this profession of Toshiro Mifune, who worked with (10[1])Akira Kurosawa. ■END■ (0[1])

ANSWER: actor [or actress; or thespian; or onnagata; accept more specific answers like kabuki actor or film actor] (The film in the first sentence is Kenji Mizoguchi’s The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums. Kon Ichikawa’s film is An Actor’s Revenge.)
<TM, Other Visual Fine Arts> | NAFTA-Packet-5
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