Drifting Clouds

Directed by Mori Masaki

With Shingo Yamashiro, Chiyoko Kawashima, Fuyumi Shiraishi, Joji Yanami and Kazuhiko Kishino

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.