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