Round 6: Tossup 14

In this film, a lowly aide who had earlier struggled to carry briefcases ignores being kicked under a table, after which the camera pans to reveal his bosses’ faces flushed red in embarrassment. In this film, a boy wearing a necklace with a carrot meets an old man played by the director of Lady Snowblood. This film’s end credits play over a long zoom on a woman breastfeeding her child. This film’s opening scene, which presents the notion that everyone watches their “last movie” during death throes, introduces a gangster clad in a white suit. This is the best-known film by a director who was (*) murdered in 1997 by gangsters and was the brother-in-law of Kenzaburō Ōe. A couple erotically slide an egg yolk between their mouths in (-5[1])one of (-5[1])this film’s many vignettes, which are peppered around the story of a cowboy-like trucker who helps a widow named “dandelion” build up a restaurant. For 10 points, what 1985 comedy by Juzo Itami was billed as a “ramen western?” ■END■ (0[2])

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