Round 4: Tossup 14

The same performer plays both a Robin Hood-esque robber and an androgynous man with this profession who avenges his parents’ murders in a 1963 film co-written by Natto Wada. A man with this profession courts his infant half-brother’s wet nurse in many long takes from The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums, a 1939 film by Kenji Mizoguchi. A film about characters with this profession is bookended by scenes at a basketball court in 1977, where one of them commits suicide after saying “I am by nature a (*) boy, not a girl,” (10[2])echoing his childhood abuse by his adoptive father. Lilian Lee wrote a Palme d’Or-winning film in which two childhood friends, whose work (10[1])in this profession is affected by the Second Sino-Japanese War, form a love triangle with a sex worker played by Gong Li. For 10 points, name this profession central to Chen Kaige’s (“chun KYE-guh’s”) Farewell My Concubine. ■END■ (10[2])

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