Terms: |Japan|
Published: 31. 3. 2026.
Which Japanese filmmaker, later celebrated for directing Violent Cop and Fireworks, had earlier appeared as Sergeant Gengo Hara in Nagisa Oshima’s 1983 film Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence?
Takeshi Kitano
Terms: |Donald Westlake| |Lee Byung-hun| |Park Chan-wook|
Published: 31. 3. 2026.
What is the title of Park Chan-wook’s adaptation of Donald Westlake’s novel The Ax, released last year and starring Lee Byung-hun in the central role?
No Other Choice
Terms: |Japan|
Published: 31. 3. 2026.
Which leading figure of the Japanese New Wave directed the 1964 noir Pale Flower, a work often associated with the spirit of Baudelaire’s The Flowers of Evil, and later became the first filmmaker to adapt Shusaku Endo’s Silence for the screen?
Masahiro Shinoda
Terms: |Clint Eastwood|
Published: 31. 3. 2026.
Walt Kowalski and Frankie Dunn are two acclaimed Clint Eastwood characters from the 21st century. Name the film in which he plays Walt, and the film in which he plays Frankie.
Gran Torino and Million Dollar Baby
Terms: |The Wizard of Oz|
Published: 31. 3. 2026.
In the classic film The Wizard of Oz, the first people Dorothy encounters in that fantastical land are a nation of little folk. She saves them from the Wicked Witch when her house falls on her. What are these people called?
The Munchkins
Terms: |Wales|
Published: 27. 3. 2026.
Which Welsh actor, born Richard Walter Jenkins Jr., became one of the most distinctive screen voices of his generation and is especially remembered for films such as Becket, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and The Spy Who Came in from the Cold?
Richard Burton