Summer Clouds (1958)
Overview
A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns out to be married and won't leave his wife. Her older brother tries to marry off his children and hang on to/ extend his farm through an advantageous marriage in the face of threatened land confiscation and the desire of his children to get comfortable urban jobs instead of the backbreaking work in the paddy fields under parental control.
Cast
Chikage Awashima
Yae
Yōko Tsukasa
Miciko
Isao Kimura
Okawa
Keiju Kobayashi
Hatsuji
Kumi Mizuno
Hamako
Haruko Sugimura
Mother
Chōko Iida
Hidé
Hiroshi Tachikawa
Shinji
Michiyo Aratama
Daisuke Katō
Ganjirō Nakamura II
Wasuke
Kunio Otsuka
Teruko Nagaoka
Natsuko Kahara
Yasue
Ken Yamauchi
Masao Oda
Bontarō Miake
Patron
Noriko Honma
Teruko Mita
