Floating Clouds (1955) on Netflix
Yukiko Koda is expatriated from French Indochina, where she was a secretary on a forestry project. In Tokyo she seeks out Kengo Tomioka, the married engineer she had an affair with.
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Plot summary
During the war, the Japanese government sends Kengo Tomioka, a married engineer, to French Indochina to manage forests. There he begins an affair with Yukiko Koda, a young Japanese secretary on the project, and promises to leave his wife, Kuniko, for her, but he does not. After the war Yukiko is expatriated from French Indochina, and in Tokyo she seeks him out and the affair resumes. Kengo tells her he is unable to leave Kuniko, his sickly wife. To survive the economic restraint of the postwar years, Yukiko becomes involved with an American soldier, and still she cannot cut ties with Kengo.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Floating Clouds (1955)
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- Floating Clouds is Naruse's most popular film in Japan, and in a 1999 poll of 140 Japanese critics and filmmakers run by the magazine Kinema Junpo it was ranked number three among the best Japanese films of all time.
