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Floating Clouds
JAPAN · 1955

Floating Clouds

Mikio Naruse
infidelity post-war disillusionment unfulfilled promises class difference colonial displacement
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Synopsis

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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