Packet 5: Tossup 10

This leading man parodied many of his films in the 1968 action comedy Kill!. A freeze-frame on this actor ends a 1966 film whose most famous shot depicts him center-frame, facing away from the camera in front of the corpses of men he killed in a forest. A character played by this actor smiles after suddenly tossing several clumps of hair in front of some men, who later (15[1])shoot him to death (-5[1])after he destroys an empty (15[1])suit of armor. (15[1])In the first of (15[1])three (-5[1])films (-5[1])subtitled (-5[1])No Greater Love, Road to Eternity, and A Soldier’s Prayer, a character played by this star of (*) Sword (-5[1])of Doom tries to abate the abuse of prisoners at a mine (10[1])in Manchuria. The gun-toting gangster (10[1])in Yojimbo was played by (-5[1])this actor, (10[1])whose best-known lead role was a samurai (10[1])who asks a clan (-5[1])to help him commit seppuku. For 10 points, name this star of Masaki Kobayashi’s Human (10[1])Condition trilogy and Harakiri. (10[1])■END■ (10[1]0[3])

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