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Summer Clouds

7.2

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Original title

Iwashigumoaka

AKA

Herringbone Clouds

Year

1958

Running time

128 min.

Country

Japan

Director

Mikio Naruse

Screenwriter

Shinobu Hashimoto. Novel: Tsutou Wada

Cast

Music

Ichiro Saitô

Cinematography

Masao Tamai

Producer

Toho

Genre

Drama | Small Town Life (Non-North American). Family Relationships

Synopsis

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.

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Summer Clouds

1958

Mikio Naruse

7.2

(131)