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Scattered Clouds
JAPAN · 1967

Scattered Clouds

Mikio Naruse
corporate punishment guilt and responsibility displacement and exile redemption through charity small town isolation
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Synopsis

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.

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