Floating Clouds
So short is the life of a flower, yet so much hardships it suffered.
A melancholic post-war romance about a doomed affair between a married man and a young woman, suffused with longing and the transience of human connection.
A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife. He doesn't and after the war, she turns up and the affair resumes.
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