Packet 4: Tossup 3

This author wrote a photobook for David Lynch’s The Straight Story. This author directed a “decadent” 1992 film about a sex worker who buys a pink stone. This author created “Captain EO,” who talks to his stuffed animal, (-5[1])in a 1988 novel adapted into a film shot from voyeuristic camera angles focusing on school girls’ nails and knees. In a shot from a film based on a novel by this author, a woman’s bangs cover her eyes as she hunches over staring at a telephone for days. A man struggles with an urge to stab his infant daughter (15[1])with an ice pick in this author’s novel that inspired (-5[1])the film Piercing. Novels (15[1])by this author inspired Hideaki Anno’s Love and Pop and a film in which a tongueless, (*) footless captive eats vomit from (10[1])a dog dish; that film ends (10[1])with a sequence in which a man’s foot is severed with (-5[1])wire by Asami, a woman whom (10[1])he had courted through a fake (10[1])interview process. For 10 points, Takashi Miike (“MEE-ee-kay”) adapted a novel by what author into the film Audition? ■END■ (10[3]0[8])

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