Summer Clouds (1958)
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.
Director:
Mikio Naruse
Writer:
Shinobu Hashimoto
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Chikage Awashima as Yae |
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Yōko Tsukasa as Miciko |
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Isao Kimura as Okawa |
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Keiju Kobayashi as Hatsuji |
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Kumi Mizuno as Hamako |
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Haruko Sugimura as Mother |
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Chōko Iida as Hidé |
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Hiroshi Tachikawa as Shinji |
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Michiyo Aratama as |
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Daisuke Katō as |
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Ganjirō Nakamura II as Wasuke |
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Kunio Otsuka as |
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Teruko Nagaoka as |
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Natsuko Kahara as Yasue |
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Ken Yamauchi as |
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Masao Oda as |
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Bontarō Miake as Patron |
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Noriko Honma as |
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Teruko Mita as |
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Akemi Ueno as Tetsuko |
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Michiko Fujii as |
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Takashi Itô as |
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Ikichi Ishii as |
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Yutaka Sada as |
| Production | Sanezumi Fujimoto | Producer |
| Production | Reiji Miwa | Producer |
| Writing | Tsutou Wada | Novel |
| Directing | Mikio Naruse | Director |
| Sound | Ichirō Saitō | Original Music Composer |
| Editing | Eiji Ooi | Editor |
| Art | Makoto Sono | Production Design |
| Production | Takeharu Shimada | Production Manager |
| Directing | Eizō Sugawa | Assistant Director |
| Lighting | Chōshirō Ishii | Gaffer |
| Art | Satoru Chūko | Production Design |
| Camera | Masao Tamai | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Shinobu Hashimoto | Screenplay |
| Sound | Masanobu Miyazaki | Sound Recordist |
| Sound | Masao Fujiyoshi | Sound Recordist |