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Summer Clouds (1958)

Summer Clouds poster
Original title
鰯雲
Directed by
Mikio Naruse
Genre
drama film
Country
Japan
Runtime
2h 08m
Rating
7.6 of 10 from 15 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A widowed woman runs a farm in rural Japan after World War Two. She deals with family obligations and romantic possibilities.

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What happens

Summer Clouds (鰯雲, Iwashigumo), also titled Herringbone Clouds, is a 1958 Japanese drama film directed by Mikio Naruse. It was written by Shinobu Hashimoto based on the novel by Wada Den, and was Naruse's first film in colour and in widescreen format. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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