Round 4: Tossup 12

In a shot by a director with this surname, a gangster shoots his boss point-blank as the background ironically shows a sign for a bar called “La Dolce Vita.” A martial artist with this surname was surprised to learn that Alamo Drafthouse wanted to re-release a low-budget cult film he produced and starred in, Miami Connection. The director of The Quiet Family and The Good, the Bad, the Weird shares this surname with a businessman who gave (15[1])55,000 DVDs and VHS tapes to a random Sicilian town after closing his namesake esoteric (*) “mondo” New York video store. The author of On the Art of the Cinema shares this surname with the directors of The Housemaid, A Bittersweet Life, A Tale of Two Sisters, and I Saw the Devil. To produce the kaiju film Pulgasari, a leader with this surname ordered the kidnapping of a director and actress from a neighboring country. For 10 points, the Lazarus Group hacked Sony for satirizing a leader with what surname (10[1])in The Interview? ■END■

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