pursuit of career

His films like 'The Apartment' and 'Sunset Boulevard' dissect the moral compromises and personal costs of ambition in competitive industries.

His work obsessively explores the all-consuming nature of ambition through characters like those in 'Raging Bull' and 'The Wolf of Wall Street' who sacrifice everything for success.

His films gently examine how career aspirations and generational expectations shape family relationships and individual identity in modernizing Japan.