His other films include one in which a bureaucrat resolves to build a children's playground before dying of stomach cancer, and in addition to the aforementioned Drunken Angel, he made an adaptation of King Lear where Lear is replaced by a war-loving clan patriarch.
In one of this man's films, which contains a famous "Cuckoo Waltz" scene, a gangster is treated for tuberculosis by an alcoholic doctor. His other films include one in which a bureaucrat resolves to build a children's playground before dying of stomach cancer, and in addition to the aforementioned Drunken Angel, he made an adaptation of King Lear where Lear is replaced by a war-loving clan patriarch. This man also directed a film where various characters offer different stories of how a warrior died and his wife was raped, as well as one in which the title numerical group is hired to protect a peasant village from bandits. For 10 points, name this director of Ran, Rashomon, and Seven Samurai.
In one of this man's films, which contains a famous "Cuckoo Waltz" scene, a gangster is treated for tuberculosis by an alcoholic doctor.
Akira Kurosawa