Summer Clouds

_Brief Encounter_ in postwar Japan. A widow and her overbearing mother-in-law run a farm until a visiting journalist awakens new feelings. The resulting affair founders on his reluctance to leave his wife. Naruse's quiet study of duty versus desire.

Streaming availability changes weekly. Check the Where to watch panel above — we re-pull TMDB's JustWatch index every week. If nothing's listed, the film is between licence windows.

Our similarity graph picks 6 films based on shared director, keywords, mood-cluster overlap, and MovieLens user co-rating — niche-biased away from blockbusters. Full list: /like/summer-clouds-1958/.

Mikio Naruse directed Summer Clouds in 1958. See Mikio Naruse's full filmography, where to start with Mikio Naruse, or where to go after you've seen everything by Mikio Naruse.

Summer Clouds was released in 1958 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 128 minutes.