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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