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Summer Clouds

Summer Clouds

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 2, 1958

Runtime

2h 8m

Genres

Drama

User Score

75%

Original Title

鰯雲

Production Companies

TOHO

Director

Mikio Naruse

Description

A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns out to be married and won't leave his wife. Her older brother tries to marry off his children and hang on to/ extend his farm through an advantageous marriage in the face of threatened land confiscation and the desire of his children to get comfortable urban jobs instead of the backbreaking work in the paddy fields under parental control.