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  • 1. What is the alternative English title of the film Scattered Clouds?
A) Two in the Shadow
B) Scattered Dreams
C) Clouds in the Sky
D) Shadows of the Past
  • 2. What is the Japanese title of Scattered Clouds?
A) Narusegumo
B) Kumonosu-jo
C) Midaregumo
D) Tokyo Monogatari
  • 3. In what year was Scattered Clouds released?
A) 1965
B) 1959
C) 1967
D) 1970
  • 4. Who directed the film Scattered Clouds?
A) Kenji Mizoguchi
B) Yasujiro Ozu
C) Akira Kurosawa
D) Mikio Naruse
  • 5. Which actor starred as Shiro Mishima?
A) Daisuke Katō
B) Yūzō Kayama
C) Yū Fujiki
D) Yoshio Tsuchiya
  • 6. Which actress starred as Yumiko?
A) Mitsuko Kusabue
B) Mitsuko Mori
C) Mie Hama
D) Yōko Tsukasa
  • 7. Scattered Clouds was Mikio Naruse's final film after a career starting in what year?
A) 1940
B) 1925
C) 1930
D) 1935
  • 8. What was the profession of Yumiko's husband Hiroshi?
A) Car driver
B) Ministry of Economy employee
C) Film director
D) Innkeeper
  • 9. How did Hiroshi die?
A) In a train crash
B) Of an illness
C) In a plane crash
D) In a car accident
  • 10. Who was driving the car that killed Hiroshi?
A) Shiro
B) Hayashida
C) Fujiwara
D) Ishikawa
  • 11. What was the legal outcome for Shiro following the car accident?
A) He was convicted of manslaughter
B) He was imprisoned for five years
C) He fled the country immediately
D) He was acquitted
  • 12. What did Shiro offer to pay Yumiko after the accident?
A) Daily wages
B) A monthly instalment
C) A one-time lump sum
D) Annual dividends
  • 13. Why did Yumiko initially reject Shiro's financial offer?
A) She refused it at first
B) The court forbade it
C) She did not know who he was
D) She wanted a much larger sum
  • 14. What happened to Yumiko after her husband died regarding his family?
A) Her husband's family adopted her child
B) Her husband's family disowned her
C) They made her the sole heir
D) They moved in with her
  • 15. What was the consequence of being disowned by her husband's family?
A) She became a government official
B) She received a massive fortune
C) She was left without an inheritance
D) She was forced to leave Japan immediately
  • 16. Where did Yumiko decide to work after her financial situation became precarious?
A) In the Ministry of Economy
B) In an inn run by her sister
C) In a Tokyo department store
D) In a Lahore hotel
  • 17. Near which location is her sister's inn situated?
A) Lake Biwa
B) Lake Kawaguchi
C) Lake Towada
D) Lake Ashi
  • 18. How did Shiro end up in the same area as Yumiko?
A) He went there on a holiday
B) He was reassigned by his employers
C) He bought the local inn
D) He was hiding from the police
  • 19. What eventually developed between Yumiko and Shiro in the area?
A) A business partnership
B) A legal dispute over money
C) A bitter lifelong feud
D) A mutual affection leading to a love affair
  • 20. What event brought Yumiko's past back with full power?
A) She saw Shiro's mother
B) She received a letter from her in-laws
C) She witnessed an accident
D) She met Hiroshi's ghost
  • 21. Where is Shiro transferred at the very end of the film?
A) Lahore, Pakistan
B) New York, USA
C) Beijing, China
D) London, United Kingdom
  • 22. Who played Ayako, Yumiko's sister?
A) Mie Hama
B) Kumeko Urabe
C) Mitsuko Kusabue
D) Mitsuko Mori
  • 23. Who played Katsuko, Yumiko's sister-in-law?
A) Mitsuko Mori
B) Mitsuko Kusabue
C) Yōko Tsukasa
D) Kumeko Urabe
  • 24. Which actress played Teruko?
A) Yōko Tsukasa
B) Mie Hama
C) Kumeko Urabe
D) Mitsuko Mori
  • 25. Who played Hayashida?
A) Yoshio Tsuchiya
B) Daisuke Katō
C) Tadao Nakamaru
D) Yū Fujiki
  • 26. Who played Hiroshi, Yumiko's husband?
A) Tadao Nakamaru
B) Yūzō Kayama
C) Yoshio Tsuchiya
D) Daisuke Katō
  • 27. Who played Ishikawa, Ayako's husband?
A) Yū Fujiki
B) Tadao Nakamaru
C) Daisuke Katō
D) Yoshio Tsuchiya
  • 28. Who played Fujiwara?
A) Daisuke Katō
B) Yū Fujiki
C) Tadao Nakamaru
D) Yoshio Tsuchiya
  • 29. Who played Nui, Shiro's mother?
A) Kumeko Urabe
B) Mitsuko Mori
C) Mitsuko Kusabue
D) Mie Hama
  • 30. At which institution was Scattered Clouds presented in 1981?
A) Museum of Modern Art
B) National Film Archive of Japan
C) Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
D) Hong Kong International Film Festival
  • 31. In which years was the film presented at the Museum of Modern Art according to the text?
A) 1967 and 1968
B) 1985 and 1987
C) 1990 and 1995
D) 1981 and 1983
  • 32. Who provided an introduction for the MoMA screening in 1987?
A) Yūzō Kayama
B) Akira Kurosawa
C) Mikio Naruse
D) Donald Richie
  • 33. What is Donald Richie's profession as mentioned in the text?
A) Historian
B) Film director
C) Actor
D) Producer
  • 34. At which film festival was Scattered Clouds shown in 2015?
A) Berlin International Film Festival
B) 39th Hong Kong International Film Festival
C) Venice Film Festival
D) Cannes Film Festival
  • 35. What was the context of the film's screening at the 2015 Hong Kong International Film Festival?
A) Part of a retrospective on the director
B) A tribute to Yōko Tsukasa
C) Opening night premiere
D) Competition for best foreign film
  • 36. Where were Yumiko and Hiroshi planning to depart for shortly before his death?
A) United Kingdom
B) Pakistan
C) France
D) United States
  • 37. What was Shiro Mishima's relation to Nui?
A) Nui was his wife
B) Nui was his aunt
C) Nui was his mother
D) Nui was his sister
  • 38. What was Ayako's relationship to Yumiko?
A) Sister-in-law
B) Mother
C) Cousin
D) Sister
  • 39. What was Katsuko's relationship to Yumiko?
A) Sister-in-law
B) Mother-in-law
C) Aunt
D) Sister
  • 40. Who is married to Ayako according to the cast list?
A) Shiro
B) Ishikawa
C) Hiroshi
D) Fujiwara
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