Movielogr
Summer Clouds (1958)
Directed by Mikio Naruse
Overview
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.
Length 128 minutes
Actors
Chikage Awashima | Yôko Tsukasa | Isao Kimura | Keiju Kobayashi | Kumi Mizuno | Haruko Sugimura | Chôko Iida | Hiroshi Tachikawa | Michiyo Aratama | Daisuke Katô | Ganjirô Nakamura | Kunio Ôtsuka | Teruko Nagaoka | Natsuko Kahara | Ken Yamauchi | Masao Oda | Bontarô Miake | Noriko Honma | Teruko Mita | Akemi Ueno | Michiko Fujii | Takashi Itô | Ikichi Ishii | Yutaka Sada