Round 9: Tossup 7

This author’s son composed the scores of films like The Castle of Sand, Fires on the Plain, and a 1953 film about a warrior who tries to wed a married woman he rescued. To play a character created by this author, a director asked an actor to emulate lions in nature films by Martin and Osa Johnson. The title assassin steals a collection of fiction by this author during a mob hit, then gives it to a girl in a park, in Jim Jarmusch’s (-5[1])(“JAR-mush’s”) Ghost Dog. In a film based on works by this author, a riff on Ravel’s Boléro plays over a scene including what is often considered (15[1])the first shot (*) pointing at the sun. This author created a female (10[1])medium possessed by a male ghost in one of two stories combined into Shinobu Hashimoto’s debut screenplay. For 10 points, a narrative “effect” draws from Akira Kurosawa’s film of what author’s stories “In a Grove” and “Rashomon”? ■END■ (10[1])

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