Drifting Clouds

Japan

91 min

1982

Shingo Yamashiro Youko Matsuoka Tōru Furuya Seiko Nakano Satomi Majima Naoki Tatsuta Masaharu Sato Koji Totani Mami Kumagai Kazuhiko Kishino Joji Yanami Yumi Nakatani

Retired samurai Kumosuke lives quietly, not to say idly, in Edo (old Tokyo) with his wife and two children, a young boy named Shinnosuke and an infant girl, Ohana. While he nominally runs a courier business to earn a living, he seems to spend most of his time smoking his pipe, drinking sake, and chasing women. The arrival of a Shinsengumi squad led by a young swordswman, Ichimonji Hyougo, disrupts this peaceful routine, forcing Kumosuke to defend himself.