Floating Clouds
Dir: Mikio NaruseCast: Hideko Takamine, Masayuki Mori, Mariko Okada
123mins 1955 Japan Certificate: 12A Japanese
Subtitled Floating Clouds
Part of Too Much: Melodrama on Film
Presented by Lazy Girls Film Club
Adapted from Fumiko Hayashi’s best-sellling novel, Mikio Naruse’s undisputed masterpiece contrasts two characters: a strong woman who relentlessly pursues her desire while hoping her lover and society will understand what she has to do to survive, and her lover who craves a conventionally validated social identity.
To him, she represents a blind spot that he cannot face. They love each other, but the times are out of kilter and they are hopelessly out of synch, trying to live as individuals in a newly democratised Japan.
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