A woodcutter adopts a baby while sheltering at a gate during a storm in one of this man's films starring Toshiro Mifune, and Katsushirō is distraught when Kyūzō is shot by bandits in this man's film about villagers who seek ronin to protect them.
Gold coins with crescent designs belong to a princess who pretends to be mute in one of this man's works. He's not Shakespeare, but the trees of Spider's Web Forest rise to attack the murderer of General Miki in another of this man's films. A woodcutter adopts a baby while sheltering at a gate during a storm in one of this man's films starring Toshiro Mifune, and Katsushirō is distraught when Kyūzō is shot by bandits in this man's film about villagers who seek ronin to protect them. For 10 points, name this Japanese director of Throne of Blood, Rashōmon, and The Seven Samurai.
Gold coins with crescent designs belong to a princess who pretends to be mute in one of this man's works.
Akira Kurosawa