Question: Akira Kurosawa and Alan Alda, have which occupation in common?

Context articles: Whispers in the Dark (film)
Kurosawa's Way
Dreams (M*A*S*H)
Hideo Oguni
Akira Kurosawa
Snow Trail
Life Time (M*A*S*H episode)
Dreams (1990 film)
Akira Kurosawa Memorial Short Film Competition
Alan Alda

Whispers in the Dark is a 1992 American thriller about a psychiatrist whose patient's lover may be a serial killer.
 The film starred Annabella Sciorra, Jamey Sheridan, Alan Alda, Jill Clayburgh, John Leguizamo, Deborah Unger and Anthony LaPaglia.
 The film was released by Paramount Pictures on August 7, 1992.
 It was nominated for a Razzie Award for Alan Alda as Worst Supporting Actor.
Kurosawa's Way (French: Kurosawa, la voie ) is a 2011 French documentary directed and written by Catherine Cadou.
 The film features 11 major filmmakers from Asia, America and Europe as they discuss how the films of Japanese director Akira Kurosawa influenced them.
"Dreams" is an episode from the television series "M*A*S*H".
 It was the 22nd episode of the eighth season, broadcast and aired on February 18, 1980 and repeated September 1, 1980.
 It was directed by Alan Alda.
 "Dreams" was conceived by James Jay Rubinfier and co-written with Alan Alda.
 The episode received two prestigious writing honors: The Humanitas Prize (1980), and a Writers' Guild of America nomination for episodic television writing in the dramatic category, which was a first as M*A*S*H received WGA nominations in both comedy and drama categories that same year.
 The laugh track is omitted for this episode.
Hideo Oguni (小国 英雄 , Oguni Hideo ) was a Japanese writer who wrote over 100 screenplays.
 He is best known for co-writing screenplays for a number of films directed by Akira Kurosawa, including "Ikiru", "The Seven Samurai", "Throne of Blood" and "The Hidden Fortress".
 His first film with Kurosawa was "Ikiru", and according to film professor Catherine Russell, it was Oguni who devised that film's two-part structure.
 Film critic Donald Richie regarded him as the "humanist" among Kurosawa's writers.
 In 2013, Oguni and frequent screenwriting collaborators Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto and Ryuzo Kikushima were awarded the Jean Renoir Award by the Writers Guild of America West.
Akira Kurosawa (黒沢 明 , March 23, 1910 – September 6, 1998) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter.
 Regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema, he directed 30 films in a career spanning 57 years.
Snow Trail (Japanese: 銀嶺の果て , Hepburn: Ginrei no hate ) is a 1947 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Senkichi Taniguchi from Akira Kurosawa's screenplay.
 It was the first film role for Toshirō Mifune, later to become one of Japan's most famous actors.
 Mifune and the other main actor in the film, Takashi Shimura, later became long-term collaborators of film director Akira Kurosawa.
"Life Time" is the 11th episode in the eighth season of the CBS television series "M*A*S*H".
 It originally aired on November 26, 1979, it was directed by Alan Alda and was co-written by Alan Alda and Dr. Walter D. Dishell, M.D., the latter of whom was the show's medical consultant, along with phantom assistance from authors W.C. Heinz, Ring Lardner, Jr., who had written the script for the film "MASH," and even Richard Hooker, himself a former U.S. Army MASH unit surgeon, and author of the 1968 novel "," from which the film and series both drew their inspirations.
Dreams (夢 , Yume , aka Akira Kurosawa's Dreams) is a 1990 Japanese-American magical realism film of eight vignettes written and directed by Akira Kurosawa.
 It was inspired by actual dreams that Kurosawa claimed to have had repeatedly.
 It was his first film in 45 years on which he was the sole author of the screenplay.
 It was made five years after "Ran", with assistance from George Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola, and Steven Spielberg, and funded by Warner Bros. The film was screened out of competition at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival, and to this day has received positive reviews.
The Akira Kurosawa Memorial Short Film Competition is a major international short film awards ceremony, run by the Akira Kurosawa Foundation.
 Since the inaugural 2004-2005 competition, the Grand Prix and numerous other prizes have been awarded on an annual basis.
Alan Alda ( ; born Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo; January 28, 1936) is an American actor, director, screenwriter, and author.
 A seven-time Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award winner, he is widely known for his roles as Captain Hawkeye Pierce in the TV series "M*A*S*H" (1972–1983), hosting of "Scientific American Frontiers", and as Arnold Vinick in "The West Wing" (2004–2006).
 He has also appeared in many feature films, most notably in "Crimes and Misdemeanors" (1989), as pretentious television producer Lester, and "The Aviator" (2004) as U.S. Senator Owen Brewster, the latter of which saw Alda nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.