Scattered Clouds a.k.a.Two in the Shadow

Yumiko, recently married and pregnant for the first time, loses her husband in a car crash. Feeling guilty, the driver, Mishima, offers Yumiko his assistance. She refuses and has an abortion. Though cleared in court, Mishima is transferred away from the boss’s daughter, his betrothed. On the road to her sister’s, Yumiko stops off to return Mishima’s money.While her sister plans to marry her, off Mishima requests to be transferred out of the area to save Yumiko from remembering. Ηis mother begs her to forgive him. Yumiko relents, meets Mishima and looks after him when he catches pneumonia.They fall in love and decide to leave together, but a very ill-timed car crash they witness ruins their romantic mood.They separate.
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Script: Nobuo Yamada
Cinematography: Yuzuru Azaiwa
Editing: Hideshi Ohi
Sound: Masao Fujiyoshi, Hisashi Shimonaga
Music: Toru Takemitsu
Actors: Yuzo Kayama (Shiro Mishima), Yoko Tsukasa (Yumiko Eda), Mitsuko Kusabue (Fumiko Yumiko’s sister Fumiko), Mitsuko Mori (Yumiko’s sister-in-law Katsuko), Mie Hama (Executive Director’s daughter Junko),
Production: Toho International, Japan
Producers: Sanejumi Fujimoto, Masakatsu Kaneko
Sets: Satoshi Chuko
Format: 35mm Color
Production Country: Japan
Production Year: 1967
Duration: 107

Mikio Naruse

He was born in Tokyo, on August 20, 1905.As the youngest child of a poor family, his only chance at secondary education was to study engineering in technical school.At the age of fifteen, though having no vocation for cinema, he is employed by Shochicu studios as property manager. Later he is promoted to assistant director and in 1930 he gets to direct his first short, Chanbara fufu. In 1935, after 24 films mixing laughter with melodrama, made according to the studio demands, he leaves Shochiku for PCL,which soon grew into the important Toho company. He stayed there until 1967 and his 89th and last film. Master of «shomingeki», a realistic film genre about working class characters, and «the women’s film», he directed his best work – a series of low key masterpieces portraying the hardships of a joyless everyday existence, the dissolution of the family and the muted violence of emotions. He died in Tokyo, on July 2, 1969.

Filmography

Selected Filmography
1931 Koshiben ganbare / Little Man Do Your Best! 
1933 Kimi to wakarete/ Apart from You 
1933 Yogoto no yume / Every Night Dreams
1935 Otome-gokoro sannin shimai / Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts
1935 Tsuma yo bara no yo ni / Wife! Be Like a Rose!
1935 Uwasa no musume / The Girl on Everyone’s Lips 
1937 Nyonin aishu / Feminine Melancholy
1938 Tsuruhachi Tsurujiro / Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro
1939 Hataraku ikka / The Whole Family Works
1939 Magokoro / Sincerity
1940 Tabi yakusha / Traveling Actors
1941 Hideko no shasho-san / Hideko, the Bus Conductor
1943 Uta andon / The Song Lantern
1944 Tanoshiki kana jinsei / This Happy Life
1951 Ginza gesho / Ginza Cosmetics
1951 Meshi / Repast
1952 Okaasan / Mother
1952 Inazuma / Lightning
1953 Fufu / Husband and Wife
1953 Tsuma / Wife 
1953 Ani imoto / Older Brother,Younger Sister
1954 Yama no oto / Sound of the Mountain
1954 Bangiku / Late Chrysanthemums
1955 Ukigumo / Floating Clouds
1956 Shuu / Sudden Rain
1956 Nagareru / Flowing
1958 Iwashigumo / Summer Clouds a.k.a. Herringbone Clouds
1962 Horoki / A Wanderer’s Notebook a.k.a. Her Lonely Lane 
1964 Midareru / Yearning
1967 Midaregumo / Scattered Clouds a.k.a.Two in
the Shadow / Σκόρπια σύννεφα