Seijun Suzuki when sick

Here's something to try while ILL: Watch a SEIJUN SUZUKI film.
One of the films I watched while sick was "TOKYO NAGAREMONO (TOKYO DRIFTER)," fast-paced and lurid account of a former gangster wandering the Japanese hinterlands to escape from hit men.
Many of the film's stunning visual aspects have been linked to Suzuki's creativity in the face of movie-studio money managers.
"Suzuki had been warned again to curtail his wild visual antics," writes film historian CHRIS D., in "OUTLAW MASTERS OF JAPANESE FILM." "In an attempt to appease his bosses, he slashed Tokyo Drifter's budget. Conversely, this caused him and production designer Takeo Kimura to use even stranger, more imaginative lighting effects, sparsely dressed sets and weird juxtapositions to tell their story. The outcome was an outlandish deconstruction of the genre, a fast-moving piece of cinema made up of flamboyantly eccentric tableaux that is by turns funny, thrilling and romantic."
"Tokyo Nagaremono" might not make you quit coughing, but the exhilaration you feel watching this 1966 film might make you forget the hacking, at least for a while.