Original title: Ukigumo
Directors: Naruse, Mikio
Cast: Hideko Takamine, Mariko Okada
Japan 1955 | Black & white | 123 mins | Drama
Avaliable on: 35mm, DVD
For many, Naruse’s ultimate masterpiece. It opens in the bombed ruins of Tokyo as Yukiko (Hideko Takamine) searches for Tomioka, with whom she worked in Southeast Asia during the war. They renew their affair, but he tells Yukiko he can’t leave his wife…
— James Quandt