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

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