Image of the day. Unideal Couples

In honor of Hideko Takamine's appearance in Film Forum's 5 Japanese Divas retrospective, a frowny-melancholy-dour revision of our nascent Ideal Couples image series.

Yukiko Koda (Takamine) and Kengo Tomioka (Masayuki Mori) in Mikio "Who Else?" Naruse's Floating Clouds (1955), cinematography by Masao Tamai.  Floating Clouds screens in New York on Friday, April 15.