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Ukigumo (Floating Clouds)

Ukigumo (Floating Clouds) (1955)

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Release Date: Jan 1, 1955 Wide

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Floating Clouds is set in the dissolution of Japanese society after the war. Yukiko wanders figuratively and literally through a devastated Tokyo searching for a means of existence and comfort. At all turns, she is manipulated by men and forced to submit to their manipulations when she is unable to support herself. Returning to Tokyo at the end of the war, Yukiko tries to get a number of jobs but none of her attempts are successful. As a result she turns to prostitution, catering to American

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A colleague astutely described Floating Clouds's ever-deepening sense of detachment as a precursor to Fassbinder.

November 8, 2005 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine
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Melodrama with very rare sensibility and tremendously affecting performances.
May 10, 2011
George Matalliotakis

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This is definitely the most melodramatic Naruse I've seen thus far. That aside, the two protagonists here are arguable the most complex and nuanced. Naruse presents them as very flawed individuals who despite their feelings toward each other, constantly put each other down while harming the people around them. This is very much a self destructive romance between a weak willed and selfish man and a strong woman who cannot abandon her love for him. It's interesting Masayuki Mori plays the man in that he comes to the same realization of how he took his wife for granted in here as in the character he played in Ugetsu. Props to Hideko Takamine for a terrific performance.
April 26, 2007
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  • Floating Clouds (Ukigumo) (DE)
  • Floating Clouds (Ukigumo) (UK)
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