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Scattered Clouds aka Two in the Shadow (乱れ雲, Midaregumo) is a 1967 Japanese drama film directed by Mikio Naruse starring Yōko Tsukasa and Yūzō Kayama. It was Naruse's final film after a long lasting career which started in 1930.




Plot


Shortly before Yumiko's and her husband Hiroshi's (an employee of the Ministry of Economy) departure for the United States, he is killed in a car accident. The car's driver, Shiro, although acquitted in the following hearing, feels guilty and offers Yumiko to pay a monthly instalment. Yumiko first rejects, but when her husband's family disowns her, leaving her without an inheritance, she finally accepts the money. Due to her precarious financial situation, she decides to return to her hometown and work in the inn run by her sister near Lake Towada. By coincidence, Shiro is reassigned by his employers to the same area. Although Yumiko and Shiro slowly develop a mutual affection, finally leading to a love affair, Yumiko can't leave her past behind, which returns with all its power when she witnesses an accident that reminds her of Hiroshi's death. In the end, Shiro is transferred again, to a far away office in Lahore, Pakistan.




Cast


Yōko Tsukasa as Yumiko
Yūzō Kayama as Shiro Mishima
Mitsuko Kusabue as Ayako, Yumiko's sister
Mitsuko Mori as Katsuko, Yumiko's sister-in-law
Mie Hama as Teruko
Daisuke Katō as Hayashida
Yoshio Tsuchiya as Hiroshi, Yumiko's husband
Yū Fujiki as Ishikawa, Ayako's husband
Tadao Nakamaru as Fujiwara
Kumeko Urabe as Nui, Shiro's mother




Legacy


Scattered Clouds was presented at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in 1981 and at the Museum of Modern Art in 1985 and 1987, the second time with an introduction by historian Donald Richie. In 2015, it was shown at the 39th Hong Kong International Film Festival as part of a retrospective on the director.




References






Bibliography


Russell, Catherine (2008). The Cinema of Naruse Mikio: Women and Japanese Modernity. Durham and London: Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-4290-8.




External links


Scattered Clouds at IMDb
Uhlich, Keith (31 December 2005). "Scattered Clouds review". Slant Magazine. Retrieved 23 January 2021.

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