Round 4: Tossup 13

Note to moderator: read the answerline carefully. Note to players: Description acceptable. Near the end of a film about this character, the camera depicts a man falling to his knees and pans down to track a fallen flower flowing in a river. This character admonishes a young man who fearfully screams for his “mommy” by telling him “a long life eating porridge is best!” Footage was reversed to create two shots in which this character throws a knife to impale falling leaves. A technical glitch is often erroneously thought to have caused a one-take shot in which this character slices a foe’s torso to spurt an absurdly thick gush of (*) blood. This character, who often rolls his shoulders as if to shake off bugs, sees a dog holding a severed hand (10[1])in its mouth in a film whose opening scene depicts him throwing a stick in the air at a crossroads. This character duels a gunslinger in the finale of a 1961 film that Sergio Leone plagiarized for A Fistful of Dollars. For 10 points, name or describe (-5[1])this warrior played by Toshirō Mifune in two films by Akira Kurosawa. ■END■ (10[1])

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