Floating Weeds

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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Yasujirō Ozu directed Floating Weeds in 1959. See Yasujirō Ozu's full filmography, where to start with Yasujirō Ozu, or where to go after you've seen everything by Yasujirō Ozu.

Floating Weeds was released in 1959 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 115 minutes.