Packet 6: Tossup 14

In this film, a lowly aide who had earlier struggled to carry briefcases ignores being kicked under a table, after which the camera pans to reveal his bosses’ faces flushed red in embarrassment. In this film, a boy wearing a necklace with a carrot meets an old man played by the director of Lady Snowblood. This film’s end credits play over a long zoom on a woman breastfeeding her child. This (15[1])film’s opening scene, which presents the notion that everyone watches their “last movie” during death throes, introduces a gangster clad in a white suit. This is the best-known film by a director (-5[1])who was (*) murdered in 1997 by gangsters and was the brother-in-law of Kenzaburō (10[1])Ōe. (10[1])A couple erotically slide an egg yolk between their (10[2])mouths in (-5[1])one of (-5[1])this (10[1])film’s (10[1]-5[1])many vignettes, (10[1])which are peppered around the story (10[1])of a cowboy-like trucker who helps a widow named “dandelion” build up a restaurant. (10[1])For 10 points, (10[1])what 1985 comedy by Juzo Itami was billed as a “ramen western?” ■END■ (10[1]0[3])

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