Summer Clouds

Summer Clouds — Plot

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.

• Release date
• September 2, 1958
• Runtime
• 128 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Mikio Naruse

Summer Clouds — Cast

Chikage Awashima Yae Yōko Tsukasa Miciko Isao Kimura Okawa Keiju Kobayashi Hatsuji Kumi Mizuno Hamako Haruko Sugimura Mother Chōko Iida Hidé Hiroshi Tachikawa Shinji