. . . "By depreciative coincidence, the night after re-viewing Fair Weather on DVD, I saw the Japanese director Mikio Naruse???s 1955 rural melodrama Summer Clouds???it???s a wonderful movie, Tolstoyian in its love of land, frank and unhysterical about sex, love, abortion, class, and any other subject that might, alone, prompt 90 minutes of gutty overacting if made on the other side of the Pacific." . .