1967 · drama · romance · japanese
Scattered Clouds
Directed by Mikio Naruse1h 48m1967
A man is involved in a fatal car accident, and though he is blameless, his company transfers him to a remote branch in a small town. Before he leaves, he gives the man's widow a large sum of money that she uses to move back to her hometown.
Our read: Scattered Clouds (1967) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama · romance · japanese entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, measured, gentle drama / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender.
- sombre
- measured
- intimate
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