Floating Clouds

“So short is the life of a flower, yet so much hardships it suffered.”

In wartime Indochina, a married forester named Kengo Tomioka (Masayuki Mori) meets Yukiko Koda (Hideko Takamine), a young Japanese typist, and promises to leave his wife for her. He doesn't. After the war Yukiko finds him again in Japan, and Mikio Naruse follows the affair as it picks up where it left off. The film is about people who go on loving someone who cannot give them what was promised.