Summer Clouds

(1958)

★ 7.7 IMDb · 16 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1958

Runtime: 128 мин

Country: Japan

Director: 成瀬巳喜男

Cast: 淡島千景, Ёко Цукаса, 木村功, Кейдзю Кобаяси, 水野久美, 杉村春子, 飯田蝶子, 太刀川寛, 新珠三千代, Дайскэ Като

Plot

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.