Floating Weeds (1959)

Original title

浮草

Directed by

Yasujirō Ozu

Genre

drama film

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 59m

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 201 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of kabuki actors arrive in a small seaside town for a run of shows. The troupe's aging lead actor has a secret adult son with his former mistress who still lives there.

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What happens

Floating Weeds (Japanese: 浮草, Hepburn: Ukigusa) is a 1959 Japanese drama film directed and co-written by Yasujirō Ozu, starring Nakamura Ganjirō II, Machiko Kyō, Hiroshi Kawaguchi and Haruko Sugimura. It is a remake of Ozu's own black-and-white silent film A Story of Floating Weeds (1934), and follows a troupe of kabuki actors in a small seaside town, where the troupe's aging lead actor has an adult son with his former mistress. Produced and distributed by Daiei Film, the film was released in Japan on November 17, 1959. Since its initial release, Floating Weeds has been widely acclaimed by both critics and filmmakers, and is considered one of the greatest films ever made. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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