JAPAN · 1958
Summer Clouds
Japanese Golden Age
post-war family dynamics
forbidden romance
rural land inheritance
maternal conflict
infidelity and betrayal
Synopsis
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
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