Floating Clouds

  • Drama
  • Romance
1/15/1955
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So short is the life of a flower, yet so much hardships it suffered.

A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife. He doesn't and after the war, she turns up and the affair resumes.

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  • Geronimo1967

    With Japan on its knees following the end of the Second World War, Yukiko (Hideko Takamine) is struggling to find meaning in her life. She had had a fling with the married Tomioka (Masayuki Mori) but when he had been despatched to work for the forestry service in Annam, she assumed that was that. Well no, as it happens, for she is also posted there as a typist and so they pick up where they left off. Whilst perhaps not a sense of happiness, there is contentedness for Yukiko until returning to Japan, she soon realises that not only can they never truly be together but that he has most definitely got a wandering eye. To be fair to him, she also seeks solace elsewhere and for a while has an GI in tow, but ultimately she only has eyes for her T...

    December 7, 2025

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