
Floating Clouds(1955)
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.


Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage; all she does is cook and clean for her husband.

Ken Uehara
Hatsunosuke Okamoto

Setsuko Hara
Michiyo Okamoto

Yukiko Shimazaki
Satoko Okamoto

Yōko Sugi
Mitsuko Murata

Akiko Kazami
Seiko Tomiyasu

Haruko Sugimura
Matsu Murata

Ranko Hanai
Koyoshi Dohya

Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi
Kazuo Takenaka

Keiju Kobayashi
Shinzo Murata

So Yamamura
Repast is a drama film released in 1951 exploring themes of based on novel or book, marriage, osaka, japan, meal, unhappiness, post war japan. Directed by Mikio Naruse, it stars Ken Uehara, Setsuko Hara, Yukiko Shimazaki. Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage; all she does is cook and clean for her husband.
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