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Summer Clouds (1958)

Summer Clouds (1958)

Drama
Release Date: 1958, September 2
Directors: Mikio Naruse
Countries: Japan
Production: TOHO
Cast: Isao Kimura, Keiju Kobayashi, Yōko Tsukasa, Hiroshi Tachikawa, Haruko Sugimura, Kumi Mizuno, Ganjirō Nakamura II, Natsuko Kahara, Akemi Ueno, Bontarō Miake, Chōko Iida, Chikage Awashima

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.

Keywords:

based on novel or book reporter interview farm mother-in-law war widow