spring - 2026 ACF Regionals

Packet J: Bonus 3

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”]

<TM, Other Fine Arts> | Packet J - Southampton A, Indiana A, Illinois B, Edinburgh A

Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
81	14.32	91%	31%	21%

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Conversion

Team	Opponent	Part 1	Part 2	Part 3	Total	Parts
Alabama B	Mississipi State	0	0	10	10	E
Arizona State	UCLA B	0	0	10	10	E
Berkeley A	Berkeley B	10	10	10	30	HME
Berkeley C	Berkeley D	0	0	10	10	E
Binghamton A	Binghamton B	0	0	10	10	E
Brandeis A	Dartmouth A	0	10	10	20	ME
Brock	McGill B	10	10	10	30	HME
Brown	Dartmouth B	10	0	10	20	HE
Cambridge B	City St. George's	0	0	10	10	E
Chicago A	Chicago E	10	10	10	30	HME
Chicago B	Illinois A	10	0	10	20	HE
Chicago D	Northwestern D	0	0	0	0
Columbia A	Johns Hopkins A	0	10	10	20	ME
Columbia B	NYU B	0	0	10	10	E
Columbia C	Rutgers B	0	0	10	10	E
Cornell B	Cornell A	0	0	10	10	E
Durham	Oxford B	0	0	10	10	E
Edinburgh B	Bristol	0	0	10	10	E
Florida A	Central Florida A	0	0	10	10	E
Florida B	Central Florida C	0	0	10	10	E
Florida C	Central Florida B	0	0	10	10	E
Georgia Tech A	Minnesota A	0	0	10	10	E
Georgia Tech B	Georgia Tech C	0	0	10	10	E
Harvard A	Southern Connecticut State	10	0	10	20	HE
Harvard B	Brandeis B	0	0	10	10	E
Illinois C	Indiana C	0	0	10	10	E
James Madison B	South Carolina B	0	0	10	10	E
John Jay	Johns Hopkins B	0	10	10	20	ME
LSE	Cambridge C	0	0	10	10	E
Liberty A	North Carolina B	10	0	10	20	HE
Liberty B	NC State A	0	0	0	0
Louisville A	Vanderbilt B	0	0	0	0
Louisville B	Alabama A	0	0	0	0
MIT	Yale	0	0	10	10	E
Maryland B	Catholic	0	10	10	20	ME
McGill A	Waterloo B	0	0	10	10	E
McMaster B	Toronto F	0	0	0	0
Michigan B	Michigan State	0	10	10	20	ME
Michigan C	CWRU A	10	10	10	30	HME
Missouri B	Carleton College	0	0	0	0
NC State B	Wake Forest	0	0	10	10	E
NYU A	Maryland A	10	10	10	30	HME
NYU C	Vassar	0	0	10	10	E
North Carolina A	Duke	0	0	10	10	E
Northwestern B	Indiana B	10	0	10	20	HE
Notre Dame A	Northwestern C	0	0	10	10	E
Ohio State A	Ohio State C	0	0	10	10	E
Ohio State B	Michigan A	0	10	10	20	ME
Oxford A	Imperial C	0	0	10	10	E
Penn State	RIT	10	10	10	30	HME
Pittsburgh	CWRU B	10	10	10	30	HME
Purdue A	Notre Dame B	0	0	10	10	E
Purdue B	Chicago C	10	10	10	30	HME
Queen's	McMaster A	0	0	10	10	E
Rochester	Cornell C	0	0	10	10	E
Rutgers A	Maryland C	0	10	10	20	ME
Stanford B	Stanford A	0	0	10	10	E
Swarthmore	Georgetown	0	0	10	10	E
Tennessee A	Georgia Tech D	0	10	10	20	ME
Tennessee B	Sewanee	0	0	10	10	E
Texas A	Texas B	0	0	10	10	E
Texas A&M A	Murray State A	0	0	0	0
Toronto B	Ottawa	0	10	10	20	ME
Toronto C	Simon Fraser	10	0	10	20	HE
Toronto E	Guelph	0	0	10	10	E
Toronto G	Western C	0	0	10	10	E
Toronto Metropolitan	Toronto D	0	0	10	10	E
UBC B	Carleton University	0	10	10	20	ME
UC Santa Barbara	UCSD C	0	10	10	20	ME
UCL	Imperial A	0	10	10	20	ME
UCLA A	UC Irvine	0	0	10	10	E
UCSD B	UCSD A	0	0	10	10	E
VCU	William and Mary	0	0	10	10	E
Virginia	James Madison A	10	10	10	30	HME
Virginia Tech A	North Carolina C	0	10	10	20	ME
Virginia Tech B	South Carolina A	0	0	10	10	E
WashU A	Bruin	10	10	10	30	HME
WashU B	Kentucky	0	0	10	10	E
Washington B	Claremont	0	10	10	20	ME
Waterloo A	UBC A	10	10	10	30	HME
Western B	Western A	0	0	10	10	E

Summary

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