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Floating Clouds

So short is the life of a flower, yet so much hardships it suffered.

1955 · 2h 3m · N/A Drama, Romance
Directed by Mikio Naruse

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A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife. He doesn't and after the war, she turns up and the affair resumes.

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Quietly eloquent, immaculately crafted.

Michael Wilmington, Los Angeles Times
Fresh

[Naruse's] meanings are contained in his actors' faces and in his distinctive dovetailing of dramatic incidents, a narrative pattern that allows his characters no rest, but affords a strange peace in its constancy.

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader

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