Floating Clouds

Yukiko works as a secretary for a forestry project under the Japanese wartime government. She has an affair with one of the engineers, Kengo, who promises to leave his wife for her. Later, when she ends up in Tokyo, she reconnects with her lover. They rekindle their relationship, but he refuses to leave his sickly wife for Yukiko.

Ben Singer: “Based on a novel by the acclaimed feminist writer Fumiko Hayashi, Mikio Naruse’s masterwork portrays a beleaguered romance enmeshed in the poverty, dislocation, and despondency of a defeated Japan. The film exemplifies an important strain of realist-naturalist melodrama steering clear of expressionist hyperbole and narrative hijinks.”

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