Round 8: Tossup 9

A film by this director, which inspired the song “The Becoming” from the album The Downward Spiral, was partially shot by its lead actress after the crew abandoned the shoot. This director’s own mugging inspired a 1998 film about a man’s obsession with buying a gun after his girlfriend’s suicide. In the opening of a film by this director, the camera pans across a room covered in photos of Olympic runners before a character stabs himself in the thigh. This director acted in leading roles in his films A Snake of June, Bullet Ballet, Kotoko, and a film in which his character is the victim of a hit-and-run (-5[1])by a man he tells, “our (*) love can (10[1])destroy this whole world.” (-5[1])Chu Ishikawa composed an industrial score for that film by this director, which uses stop-motion to depict a salaryman’s body transforming into metal. For 10 points, name this director of Tetsuo: The Iron Man. ■END■ (0[4])

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