Rent Floating Clouds (1955)
3.8 of 5 from 70 ratings
1h 58min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
- Amour fou in Tokyo. Adapted from Fumiko Hayashi's best-selling novel, Naruse's undisputed masterpiece contrasts two characters: a strong woman who relentlessly pursues her desire while hoping her lover and society will understand what she has to do to survive, and her lover who craves a conventionally validated social identity. To him, she represents a blind spot that he cannot face. They love each other, but the times are out of kilter and they are hopelessly out of synch, trying to live as individuals in a newly democratised Japan.
- Actors:
- Hideko Takamine, Masayuki Mori, Mariko Okada, Isao Yamagata, Chieko Nakakita, Daisuke Katô, Mayuri Mokushô, Noriko Sengoku, Fuyuki Murakami, Heihachirô Ôkawa, Nobuo Kaneko, Roy James, Kan Hayashi, Akira Tani, Seijirô Onda, Keiko Mori, Tsuruko Mano, Kumeko Otowa, Teruko Mita, Toshiko Nakano
- Directors:
- Mikio Naruse
- Producers:
- Sanezumi Fujimoto
- Writers:
- Fumiko Hayashi, Yôko Mizuki
- Aka:
- Ukigumo / Mikio Naruse Collection: Floating Clouds
- Studio:
- BFI Video
- Genres:
- Classics, Drama, Romance
- Countries:
- Japan
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 01/07/2024
- Run Time:
- 124 minutes
- Languages:
- Japanese LPCM Mono
- Subtitles:
- English
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Full Screen 1.37:1
- Colour:
- B & W
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Newly recorded audio commentary by writer and film critic Adrian Martin
- Mikio Naruše: Auteur as Salaryman (2016, 73 mins, audio): academic Catherine Russell, an expert in the cinema of Naruše, assesses the director's career. Recorded at BFI Southbank
- Freda Freiberg on Floating Clouds (2007, 10 mins)
- Paul Willemen on Floating Clouds (2007, 7 mins)
- 'Floating Clouds' selected scenes commentary (2007, 10 mins): cinema historian Freda Freiberg examines a key sequence from 'Floating Clouds'
