☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ½
Floating Clouds (Ukigumo) (1955) -- M. Naruse
Masayuki Mori plays a
terrible cad (but soulfully) and Hideko Takamine is the woman who irrationally
loves him. This is really a duet for two tremendous actors, who chart the ill
fortunes of a romance that is not to be across many years starting in WW2 but
mostly during Japan's rough period directly afterward. It is all his fault and,
because this is Naruse, he finds out too late. Not the perfect masterpiece that
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs would be, but right up there with his best.
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