Floating Clouds
Ukigumo
1955, Film, 123 min, Drama, Romance, Japanese, Japan, MoviePedia score 71
So short is the life of a flower, yet so much hardships it suffered.
A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife. He doesn't and after the war, she turns up and the affair resumes.
Directed by Mikio Naruse
Cast
- Hideko Takamine as Yukiko Koda
- Masayuki Mori as Kengo Tomioka
- Mariko Okada as Sei Mukai
- Isao Yamagata as Sugio Iba
- Chieko Nakakita as Kuniko Tomioka
- Daisuke Katō as Seikichi Mukai
- Mayuri Mokushô as Nomiya no musume
- Noriko Sengoku as Yakushima no okaasan
- Fuyuki Murakami as Futsuin no shikensho-chou
- Heihachirō Ōkawa as Isha
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