Mikio Naruse – Ukigumo AKA Floating Clouds (1955)
Quote:
“The elegance and indisputable hard punch of Naruse’s storytelling become immediately clear the moment the lovers kiss and the director cuts, midclinch, to an almost identical shot of them kissing in the past, an edit that suggests this is a passion that transcends even time and space.”
– Manohla Dargis, New York Times (October 28, 2005)
All Movie Guide’s Plot Synopsis
Spoiler:
Floating Clouds is set in the dissolution of Japanese society after the war. Yukiko wanders figuratively and literally through a devastated Tokyo searching for a means of existence and comfort. At all turns, she is manipulated by men and forced to submit to their manipulations when she is unable to support herself. Returning to Tokyo at the end of the war, Yukiko tries to get a number of jobs but none of her attempts are successful. As a result she turns to prostitution, catering to American occupation forces. During this time a number of men, including her brother-in-law and her former lover Tomioka, come forward to help her, but their generosity is only a mask for their sexual desires. Eventually Tomioka’s wife dies and he takes Yukiko to an island where he is to begin a new job. Their happiness is forestalled when Yukiko, sorely tried by her life, falls ill and dies.
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General
Container: Matroska
Runtime: 2 h 3 min
Size: 2.55 GiB
Video
Codec: x264
Resolution: 790x576
Aspect ratio: 1.372
Frame rate: 23.976 fps
Bit rate: 2 778 kb/s
BPP: 0.255
Audio
#1: Japanese 2.0ch AAC LC @ 156 kb/s
Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:Japanese, English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish
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