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Summer Clouds
JAPAN · 1958

Summer Clouds

Mikio Naruse
post-war family dynamics forbidden romance rural land inheritance maternal conflict infidelity and betrayal
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Synopsis

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

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