# La hierba errante (1959)

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**Original title**: *浮草*
**Runtime**: 115 min
**Genres**: Drama
**Directed by**: Yasujirō Ozu
**Written by**: Yasujirō Ozu, Kōgo Noda, Tadao Ikeda
**Starring**: Ganjirō Nakamura II, Machiko Kyō, Ayako Wakao, Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Haruko Sugimura, Hitomi Nozoe

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Ugly duckling melodrama meets Ozu’s static gaze. A touring theater’s impresario reunites with a former lover, then watches his itinerant family and fraught inheritance collapse. Late 50s Japan in a single, serene long shot.

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