Round 10: Tossup 6

In a 2009 Japanese film, a music store owner plays a song titled for this sort of animal to ward off a 2012 comet crash. A reporter visits Uzbekistan in search of a mythical sort of this animal in Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s film To the Ends of the Earth. God smokes a cigarette while manifesting as one of these animals with fake eyelashes in Masaaki Yuasa’s animated film Mind Game. The Saitama Dog Lover Murders inspired a Sion Sono film about salesmen of these animals. (15[1])A shot of one of these animals (*) impaled on a (10[1])blood-red background opens Takeshi Kitano’s film Sonatine. Richard Wagner’s Die Walküre (“dee val-KEE-ruh”) inspired the birth name Brunhilde for a ham-loving one of these animals who titles a 2008 film. In a 2011 documentary, this is the sort of animal whose meat is most often prepared by chefs Yoshikazu and Jiro (10[1])Ono. (10[2])For 10 points, what sort of animal is Ponyo? ■END■

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