Scattered Clouds (1967) poster
1967 · drama · romance · japanese

Scattered Clouds

Directed by Mikio Naruse1h 48m1967
ElsewhereIMDb7.81kTMDB7.848
  • sombre
  • measured
  • intimate
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Sombre, measured, gentle drama / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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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. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want a quiet Japanese melodrama of grief, guilt and restrained love.

ends bittersweetit stays with yousteady all the waygrips by minute 22attention 4/5earns its lengthsubtitles: full
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around

Skip it tonightYou want fast plots, clear resolutions or upbeat romance.

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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