Summer Clouds (1958)

7.6/10 128 min Drama

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.

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

Michiyo Aratama

Daisuke Katō

Ganjirō Nakamura II

Wasuke

Kunio Otsuka

Teruko Nagaoka

Natsuko Kahara

Yasue

Ken Yamauchi

Masao Oda

Bontarō Miake

Patron

Noriko Honma

Teruko Mita

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