Ukigumo (1955)

Director:

Mikio Naruse

Writers:

Fumiko Hayashi (novel)
Yôko Mizuki (adaptation)

Release Date:

6 June 1980 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Romance

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

Bathing | One Word Title | Forbidden Love | Based On Novel

Awards:

9 wins

Cast

Hideko Takamine	...	Yukiko Koda
Masayuki Mori	...	Kengo Tomioka
Mariko Okada	...	Sei Mukai
Isao Yamagata	...	Sugio Iba
Chieko Nakakita	...	Kuniko Tomioka
Daisuke Katô	...	Seikichi Mukai
Mayuri Mokusho	...	Nomiya no musume
Noriko Sengoku	...	Yakushima no okaasan
Fuyuki Murakami	...	Futsuin no shikensho-chou
Heihachiro Okawa	...	Isha
Nobuo Kaneko	...	Futsuin no shoin - Suitou
Roy James	...	American soldier (as Roi H. Jêmusu)
Kan Hayashi
Akira Tani	...	Shinja
Seijiro Onda

Also Known As:

Floating Clouds

Runtime:

123 min

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

UK:12A (2005)

Company:

Toho Company

Trivia:

Third in the centenary poll by Kinema-Junpo magazine about all-time best Japanese films, Shichinin no samurai (1954) and Tôkyô monogatari (1953) preceded it.

Movie Connections:

References Going My Way (1944)

Period piece stuck in the period

This melodrama of postwar Japan seemed to resonate with the people I watched it with; many seem to have seen it when it came out and it really spoke to them; but alas it is really a turgid melodrama that can't sustain your interest. Well directed and acted; it none the less becomes a series of redundant bad break scenes for it's heroine. Worth seeing, but not one of the greats of Japanese film.