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Floating Clouds

Floating Clouds

1955 · 123 min · JA · 7.8 (87 votes)
Dir. Mikio Naruse · Starring Hideko Takamine, Masayuki Mori, Mariko Okada, Isao Yamagata, Chieko Nakakita, Daisuke Katō · Music Ichirō Saitō
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A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife. He doesn't and after the war, she turns up and the affair resumes.

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A quiet, melancholic exploration of enduring, unfulfilled love. It feels like a lingering sigh, a gentle ache for what might have been, set against the backdrop of changing times and societal pressures.

melancholicwistfulsomberyearningslow-burnJapanese melodramaperiod dramacharacter studyunrequited loveregretlosssocietal expectations
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based on novel or bookbathingforbidden love
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