Floating Clouds (Alternatieve titel)
Mikio Naruse / JP, 1955
The film is also known as A Floating Cloud and by its original title Ukigumo.©1955 Toho Co., Ltd.
In Floating Clouds, Naruse contrasts a tempestuous wartime love affair with the post-war reality of Tokyo, a city in ruins. When Yukiko returns from French Indochina expecting to resume her relationship with Tomioka, she”s in for an unpleasant surprise: the stoical young man prefers to lead a quiet life with his ailing wife. Yukiko”s attempts to win back her lover cause an irreparable rift between the two.
Naruse”s portrait of two ex-lovers struggling to cope in a ruined city, reminded one film critic of Fassbinder”s early work. In these films of Fassbinder, a whole generation of survivors is looking for something to hold on to, while the female characters show greater courage than the men who lost the war.
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Director
Mikio Naruse
Production year
1955
Country
JP
Original title
Floating Clouds (Alternatieve titel)
Subtitles
ENG
Format
35mm
Part of
Mubii Japan
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