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Floating Clouds

Play trailer Poster for Floating Clouds 1955,  2h 3m,  Drama/ Romance Play Trailer Watchlist
Watchlist - - 5 Reviews Tomatometer 83% 500+ Ratings Popcornmeter
Tomatometer 5 Reviews 83% Popcornmeter 500+ Ratings
A woman struggles for happiness despite the betrayals of her lover.

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Michael Wilmington Los Angeles Times May 22, 2014
Quietly eloquent, immaculately crafted. Go to Full Review
Dave Kehr Chicago Reader Dec 6, 2005
[Naruse's] meanings are contained in his actors' faces and in his distinctive dovetailing of dramatic incidents, a narrative pattern that allows his characters no rest, but affords a strange peace in its constancy. Go to Full Review
Keith Uhlich Slant Magazine Nov 8, 2005
4/4
A colleague astutely described Floating Clouds's ever-deepening sense of detachment as a precursor to Fassbinder. Go to Full Review
Laura Clifford Reeling Reviews Jul 1, 2025
A-
Stunningly shot in black and white boxy Academy ratio by cinematographer Masao Tamai on location from Vietnam to Tokyo to the remote, rainy Yakushima Island, unusual for its time and Naruse, "Floating Clouds" is an intimate epic with a devastating finale. Go to Full Review
Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews Jul 19, 2013
A
The lights-out melodrama might be the master filmmaker's best film. Go to Full Review
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Cast & Crew

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Mikio Naruse

Director

Hideko Takamine

Yukiko Koda

Masayuki Mori

Kengo Tomioka

Chieko Nakakita

Kuniko Tomioka

Mariko Okada

Sei Mukai

Isao Yamagata

Sugio Iba

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Floating Clouds

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Movie Info

Synopsis A woman struggles for happiness despite the betrayals of her lover.
Director
Mikio Naruse
Producer
Sanezumi Fujimoto
Screenwriter
Yôko Mizuki, Fumiko Hayashi
Production Co
Toho Company
Genre
Drama, Romance
Original Language
Japanese
Runtime
2h 3m
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