spring - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

The once-proud Dai family struggles after Japanese occupation in a 1948 film by Fei Mu partly titled for this time period, which is often called China’s first cinematic masterpiece. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this time period that titles a 1949 film in which Noriko and Hattori bike by a roadside Coca-Cola sign. This is the first and last title time period of a 2003 film about a boy raised by a Buddhist monk on a secluded raft.

ANSWER: spring [or springtime; accept Spring in a Small Town or Late Spring; accept Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring; accept Xiǎo Chéng zhī Chūn or Banshun; accept Bom Yeoreum Gaeul Gyeoul Geurigo Bom]

[10m] Late Spring, Early Summer, and Late Autumn are among the seasonally titled films by this Japanese director known for his “pillow shots.” This contemporary of Akira Kurosawa directed Floating Weeds and Tokyo Story.

ANSWER: Yasujirō Ozu

[10e] Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring is a film from this country whose other acclaimed films of the 21st century include The Handmaiden, Memories of Murder, and Oldboy.

ANSWER: South Korea [or Republic of Korea; or Hanguk; or Dainhanminguk; prompt on Korea; reject “North Korea”; reject “Democratic People’s Republic of Korea”]

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Summary


California (North)	Main Site	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
California (South)	Main Site	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
Canada	Main Site	Y	12	15.00	92%	33%	25%
Florida	Main Site	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Great Lakes	Main Site	Y	5	22.00	100%	80%	40%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	9	13.33	89%	22%	22%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	8	16.25	88%	25%	50%
Northeast	Main Site	Y	5	16.00	100%	20%	40%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	3	10.00	67%	33%	0%
South Central	Main Site	Y	2	5.00	50%	0%	0%
Southeast	Main Site	Y	8	11.25	75%	25%	13%
UK	Main Site	Y	6	11.67	100%	17%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	9	16.67	100%	56%	11%
Upstate NY	Main Site	Y	4	15.00	100%	25%	25%

Data


Berkeley A	Berkeley B	10	10	10	30
Berkeley C	Berkeley D	0	0	10	10
Stanford B	Stanford A	0	0	10	10
Arizona State	UCLA B	0	0	10	10
UC Santa Barbara	UCSD C	0	10	10	20
UCLA A	UC Irvine	0	0	10	10
UCSD B	UCSD A	0	0	10	10
Brock	McGill B	10	10	10	30
Toronto E	Guelph	0	0	10	10
McGill A	Waterloo B	0	0	10	10
Queen's	McMaster A	0	0	10	10
Toronto B	Ottawa	0	10	10	20
Toronto C	Simon Fraser	10	0	10	20
Toronto Metropolitan	Toronto D	0	0	10	10
McMaster B	Toronto F	0	0	0	0
Waterloo A	UBC A	10	10	10	30
UBC B	Carleton University	0	10	10	20
Western B	Western A	0	0	10	10
Toronto G	Western C	0	0	10	10
Florida C	Central Florida B	0	0	10	10
Ohio State B	Michigan A	0	10	10	20
Michigan B	Michigan State	0	10	10	20
Michigan C	CWRU A	10	10	10	30
Ohio State A	Ohio State C	0	0	10	10
Pittsburgh	CWRU B	10	10	10	30
Liberty A	North Carolina B	10	0	10	20
Liberty B	NC State A	0	0	0	0
North Carolina A	Duke	0	0	10	10
Virginia Tech A	North Carolina C	0	10	10	20
James Madison B	South Carolina B	0	0	10	10
Virginia Tech B	South Carolina A	0	0	10	10
Virginia	James Madison A	10	10	10	30
NC State B	Wake Forest	0	0	10	10
VCU	William and Mary	0	0	10	10
Florida A	Central Florida A	0	0	10	10
Florida B	Central Florida C	0	0	10	10
Chicago B	Illinois A	10	0	10	20
Chicago A	Chicago E	10	10	10	30
Illinois C	Indiana C	0	0	10	10
Northwestern B	Indiana B	10	0	10	20
Notre Dame A	Northwestern C	0	0	10	10
Chicago D	Northwestern D	0	0	0	0
Purdue A	Notre Dame B	0	0	10	10
Purdue B	Chicago C	10	10	10	30
Brandeis A	Dartmouth A	0	10	10	20
Harvard B	Brandeis B	0	0	10	10
Brown	Dartmouth B	10	0	10	20
Harvard A	Southern Connecticut State	10	0	10	20
MIT	Yale	0	0	10	10
Missouri B	Carleton College	0	0	0	0
Georgia Tech A	Minnesota A	0	0	10	10
Washington B	Claremont	0	10	10	20
Texas A&M A	Murray State A	0	0	0	0
Texas A	Texas B	0	0	10	10
WashU A	Bruin	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech B	Georgia Tech C	0	0	10	10
Louisville B	Alabama A	0	0	0	0
Alabama B	Mississipi State	0	0	10	10
Tennessee A	Georgia Tech D	0	10	10	20
Tennessee B	Sewanee	0	0	10	10
Louisville A	Vanderbilt B	0	0	0	0
WashU B	Kentucky	0	0	10	10
Cambridge B	City St. George's	0	0	10	10
LSE	Cambridge C	0	0	10	10
Edinburgh B	Bristol	0	0	10	10
Oxford A	Imperial C	0	0	10	10
Durham	Oxford B	0	0	10	10
UCL	Imperial A	0	10	10	20
Maryland B	Catholic	0	10	10	20
Columbia A	Johns Hopkins A	0	10	10	20
NYU A	Maryland A	10	10	10	30
Columbia B	NYU B	0	0	10	10
Rutgers A	Maryland C	0	10	10	20
NYU C	Vassar	0	0	10	10
Binghamton A	Binghamton B	0	0	10	10
Cornell B	Cornell A	0	0	10	10
Rochester	Cornell C	0	0	10	10
Penn State	RIT	10	10	10	30
Columbia C	Rutgers B	0	0	10	10
Swarthmore	Georgetown	0	0	10	10
John Jay	Johns Hopkins B	0	10	10	20