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6 June 1980 (USA)
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Obsessive love
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Hideko Takamine | ... | Yukiko Koda | |
| Masayuki Mori | ... | Kengo Tomioka | |
| Mariko Okada | ... | Sei Mukai | |
| Isao Yamagata | ... | Sugio Iba | |
| Chieko Nakakita | ... | Kuniko Tomioka | |
| Daisuke Katô | ... | Seikichi Mukai | |
| Mayuri Mokusho | ... | Nomiya no musume | |
| Noriko Sengoku | ... | Yakushima no okaasan | |
| Fuyuki Murakami | ... | Futsuin no shikensho-chou | |
| Heihachirô Ôkawa | ... | Isha | |
| Nobuo Kaneko | ... | Futsuin no shoin - Suitou | |
| Roy James | ... | American soldier (as Roi H. Jêmusu) | |
| Miki Hayashi | |||
| Akira Tani | ... | Shinja | |
| Seijiro Onda |
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Floating Clouds
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123 min
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1.33 : 1 more
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UK:12A (2005)
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Third in the centenary poll by Kinema-Junpo magazine about all-time best Japanese films, Shichinin no samurai (1954) and Tôkyô monogatari (1953) preceded it.
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References Going My Way (1944)
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"Ukigumo" covers a considerable span of time and numerous locations. It tells the story of a young woman (Hideko Takamine) who served in Japan's forest service in Indochina during WW2, and fell in love with a (married) co-worker (Masayuki Mori) while there. After the war, she returns to Japan, completely impoverished, and finds her lover (more or less) comfortably re-established in his family and uninterested in fulfilling the idle promises he made during the war. While Mori is only willing to dally half-heartedly with her (as well as younger prettier women), Takamine remains obsessed with him. Takamine and Mori do a fine job. I found the story effective enough, albeit a bit overly melodramatic. Not my favorite Naruse film, but very much worth seeing.