Tossup

In a scene from this director’s debut, a gangster slumps in a phone booth as he tearfully asks his brother if he remembers fishing together as kids. A 1999 film by this director told in seven flashbacks by a man about to jump off a bridge features the same two leads as his next film, in which an intellectually disabled man and a woman with cerebral palsy fall in love. A film by this novelist-turned-director cuts from a man struggling to walk through a packed dancehall to a shot of him singing about a calf while digging next to a cow. In a film by this director of Green Fish, Peppermint Candy, and Oasis, a 60-year-old woman with Alzheimer’s enrolls in (*) poetry classes. The protagonist of a film by this director masturbates while gazing at a cell tower whenever he feeds a cat. (-5[1])A woman performs a Kenyan “Great Hunger Dance” to a Miles Davis song at sunset in a film by this director inspired by stories by William Faulkner and Haruki Murakami. (10[1])For 10 points, name this Korean director of Burning. ■END■ (0[2])

ANSWER: Lee Chang-dong [or Chang-dong Lee] (The lead-in refers to a scene from Green Fish. The second line describes Peppermint Candy and Oasis. The third line refers to a scene from Burning.)
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