Scattered Clouds
Dir: Naruse Mikio
Japan, 1967, 108minmins, DCP
Cast: Kayama Yuzo, Tsukasa Yoko, Kusabue Mitsuko
Made two years before Naruse’s death, Scattered Clouds is a wistful tale of lives entwined by fate and coincidence. Young widow Yumiko (Tsukasa Yoko) returns to her home town to eke out a living. Exonerated, Shiro (Kayama Yuzo) – the repentant man who killed Yumiko’s husband in a traffic accident – is transferred to a minor post in the same town. Despite their mutual reluctance, the two gradually fall in love, while the painful past looms over their relationship… Showing characters isolated in muted surroundings, Naruse’s final film eloquently reveals his clear-eyed view of human unhappiness.
1967 #4 in Kinema Junpo’s Top 10
14.12.2018 (FRI): Lecture with Lau Yam
Conducted in Cantonese
Package Discount for “Naruse Mikio: Floating, Drifting, Meandering”
– 30% discount to each purchase of standard tickets to ALL 6 sessions, and get a free copy of Naruse Mikio, 110th Anniversary catalogue*; or
– 20% discount to each purchase of 2 or above standard tickets to difference sessions.
* Audience MUST present ALL 6 original tickets of “Naruse Mikio: Floating, Drifting, Meandering” screenings for the catalogue redemption on-site 30 minutes prior to the screening.
Tai Kwun (Venue)
Chinese Subtitles
Post-screening talk / Q&A
Remarks
1. Unless otherwise stated, all films (except English-speaking films) are subtitled in English.
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