The opening chapter of this director's Something Like an Autobiography describes how a recurring sense-memory of sitting in a bathtub influenced his film about an art student who hears Chopin's Raindrop Prelude and is sucked into Wheatfield with Crows, where he converses with a Martin Scorsese-portrayed Van Gogh.
The opening chapter of this director's Something Like an Autobiography describes how a recurring sense-memory of sitting in a bathtub influenced his film about an art student who hears Chopin's Raindrop Prelude and is sucked into Wheatfield with Crows, where he converses with a Martin Scorsese-portrayed Van Gogh. This director of Dreams relied on his score to thwart censors in a film about a bond between a tubercular lowlife and his alcoholic doctor, the titular (*) Drunken Angel. A shoe company executive tries to retrieve his kidnapped son this man's High and Low, while Red Harvest inspired his film about a bodyguard pitting rival gangs against each other that was remade into A Fist Full of Dollars. Sanjuro was the sequel to that work by this man, who directed the Macbeth-inspired Throne of Blood and often worked with Toshiro Mifune. Known for retelling the King Lear story in Ran, for 10 points, identify this Japanese director of The Seven Samurai.
The opening chapter of this director's Something Like an Autobiography describes how a recurring sense-memory of sitting in a bathtub influenced his film about an art student who hears Chopin's Raindrop Prelude and is sucked into Wheatfield with Crows, where he converses with a Martin Scorsese-portrayed Van Gogh.
Akira Kurosawa