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Late Spring, an Uncommon card
Late Spring is a 1949 Japanese drama film directed by Yasujirō Ozu and written by Ozu and Kogo Noda, based on the short novel Father and Daughter by the 20th-century novelist and critic Kazuo Hirotsu.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 85
- DEF
- 100
- Power
- 185
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 67,000
Power 185 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 95 % of WikiCards cards.
Late Spring quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Late Spring card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
In which decade?
Late Spring is a ____ Japanese drama film directed by Yasujirō Ozu and written by Ozu and Kogo Noda, based on the short novel Father and Daughter by the 20th-century novelist and critic Kazuo Hirotsu.
Answer
1940s. Late Spring is a 1949 Japanese drama film directed by Yasujirō Ozu and written by Ozu and Kogo Noda, based on the short novel Father and Daughter by the 20th-century novelist and critic Kazuo Hirotsu. From the Late Spring article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Arashi. Arashi 97 · Tod Browning 94 · Hindu temple 89 · Late Spring 85 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Stanley Donen. Stanley Donen 150,000 · Arashi 100,000 · Late Spring 67,000 · Helen Wills 31,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The film was written and shot during the Allied Powers' Occupation of Japan and was subject to the Occupation's official censorship requirements.
- Starring Chishū Ryū, who was featured in almost all of the director's films, and Setsuko Hara, marking her first of six appearances in Ozu's work, it is the first installment of Ozu's so-called "Noriko trilogy", succeeded by Early Summer and Tokyo Story, in each of which Hara portrays a young woman named Noriko, though the three Norikos are distinct, unrelated characters, linked primarily by…
- Late Spring belongs to the type of Japanese cinema known as shomin-geki, a genre that deals with the ordinary daily lives of working class and middle class people of modern times.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Late Spring article was read about 67,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 85 and blocks with 100: each hit it takes is cut by 40 %.
How to get Late Spring
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Late Spring (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Shōchiku, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
