Floating Clouds
7.6
“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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Cast
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Hideko Takamine
Yukiko Koda
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Masayuki Mori
Kengo Tomioka
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Mariko Okada
Sei Mukai
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Isao Yamagata
Sugio Iba
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Chieko Nakakita
Kuniko Tomioka
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Daisuke Katō
Seikichi Mukai
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Noriko Sengoku
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Mayuri Mokushô
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Fuyuki Murakami
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Heihachirō Ōkawa
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The Bridge on the River Kwai
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Nobuo Kaneko
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Roy James
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The Money Dance
Hito mo arukeba
Mikio Naruse Director · Yōko Mizuki Screenplay Fumiko Hayashi Author
First release January 15, 1955 · Produced in Japan · Original title 浮雲
Production
TOHO
Production
Japan
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Languages
Original title
浮雲
Original language
Japanese
Spoken on screen
Japanese
Release dates
Japan · January 15, 1955
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
France
January 25, 1984 · Theatrical
Russia
May 16, 2001 · Limited theatrical · Retrospective of Mikio Naruse (Moscow)
Thailand
October 15, 2025 · Premiere · Bangkok International Film Festival
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