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