Floating Clouds

Original title: Ukigumo

1955
2h 3m

IMDb RATING

7.6/10

3.3K

YOUR RATING

Drama Romance

A tragic social drama set in post war Japan about a lonely woman trying to find purpose and stability in a devastated Tokyo.A tragic social drama set in post war Japan about a lonely woman trying to find purpose and stability in a devastated Tokyo.A tragic social drama set in post war Japan about a lonely woman trying to find purpose and stability in a devastated Tokyo.

See production info at IMDbPro

IMDb RATING

7.6/10

3.3K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 9 wins

Trivia
Third in the centenary poll by Kinema-Junpo magazine about all-time best Japanese films, only Seven Samurai (1954) and Tokyo Story (1953) preceded it.

Connections
Featured in Narratage (2017)

Soundtracks
Auld Lang Syne
(uncredited) (Traditional Scottish Ballad)
[In the Score when Kengo boards the Ship for Yaku Island towards the end of the film]

User reviews14

Review

Featured review

7/10

A solid drama

Another Mikio Naruse film, which means it's kind of long and very slow throughout... but also features great acting, plenty of technical skill behind the camera, and some quietly affecting emotional scenes.

Part of me wonders whether his films about regret, growing old, and feeling despondent will hit harder when I'm older and am more plagued with wasting time when I was younger; time I'll never get back. Time wasted on watching movies and then spewing out words than form messy opinions on them, for example.

If this app is still a thing in 20-30 years, maybe I'll revisit this and provide an update then lol.