Summer Clouds
鰯雲
Release: 1958-09-02
·Runtime: 128m
·★ 7.5
Drama
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 urban jobs instead of the backbreaking work in the paddy fields under parental control.
Production Countries
Japan
Production Companies
TOHO
Cast
Isao Kimura
as Okawa
Kunio Ôtsuka
Teruko Nagaoka
Ken Yamauchi
Teruko Mita
Chōko Iida
as Hidé
Natsuko Kahara
as Yasue
Masao Oda
Yutaka Sada
Yōko Tsukasa
as Miciko
Keiju Kobayashi
as Hatsuji
Michiyo Aratama
Ganjirō Nakamura II
as Wasuke
Noriko Honma
Chikage Awashima
as Yae
Kumi Mizuno
as Hamako
Haruko Sugimura
as Mother
Daisuke Katō
Bontarō Miake
as Patron
