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Summer Clouds

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.

Top Cast

  • Chikage Awashima

    Chikage Awashima

    Yae

  • Yōko Tsukasa

    Yōko Tsukasa

    Miciko

  • Isao Kimura

    Isao Kimura

    Okawa

  • Keiju Kobayashi

    Keiju Kobayashi

    Hatsuji

  • Kumi Mizuno

    Kumi Mizuno

    Hamako

  • Haruko Sugimura

    Haruko Sugimura

    Mother

  • Chōko Iida

    Chōko Iida

    Hidé

  • Hiroshi Tachikawa

    Hiroshi Tachikawa

    Shinji

  • Michiyo Aratama

    Michiyo Aratama

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.

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