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Floating Weeds (1959)

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Reviews Counted:20

Fresh:19

Rotten:1

Average Rating:8.4/10

Consensus: Floating Weeds boasts the visual beauty and deep tenderness of director Yasujiro Ozu's most memorable films -- and it's one of the few the master shot in color.

Runtime: 2 hrs 8 mins

Genre: Foreign Films

Synopsis: Yasujiro Ozu changes his traditional focus on the family only to recreate it among the cantankerous and meandering travels of a small time kabuki troupe. This sumptuously filmed melodrama, a color... Yasujiro Ozu changes his traditional focus on the family only to recreate it among the cantankerous and meandering travels of a small time kabuki troupe. This sumptuously filmed melodrama, a color remake of an earlier Ozu silent film, A STORY OF FLOATING WEEDS, follows the troupe as they arrive at a small coastal village. The leader of the troupe, Komajuro Arashi, has ulterior motives, a long overdue visit with a former mistress and their illegitimate son Kiyoshi. The boy has seen his father so infrequently, that he believes him to be his uncle. This confusion continues as the past and present mistresses encounter each other, and a young actress from the troupe attempts to seduce and subsequently falls in love with the leader's son at the bequest of the current jealous mistress. A kind of Japanese madcap love story, FLOATING WEEDS, as with many Ozu films, is tinged with melancholy and failure nevertheless. The troupe fails and lovers are spurned, people have aged and changed, generations bristle and life must go on. [More]

Starring: Machiko Kyô, Ganjiro Nakamura, Haruko Sugimura, Ayako Wakao

Starring: Machiko Kyô, Ganjiro Nakamura, Haruko Sugimura, Ayako Wakao

Director: Yasujiro Ozu

Director: Yasujiro Ozu

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May 19, 1993

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This is a vibrant movie, one of his few in colour, and touches on universal themes through the story of a middle-aged actor and his young mistress coming with a second-rate kabuki company to a small coastal town.

Full Review Source: Observer [UK] | comment Comment
07/28/08
Philip French
Philip French
Observer [UK]

Ozu's familiar combination of melancholy regret and buoyant comic gaiety is beguilingly in evidence.

Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | comment Comment
07/28/08
Peter Bradshaw
Peter Bradshaw
Guardian [UK]

A thoroughly absorbing affair.

Full Review Source: Total Film | comment Comment
07/28/08
Tom Dawson
Tom Dawson
Total Film

Yasujiro Ozu's film is in color, and the screen compositions are incredible.

Full Review Source: DVDLaser | comment Comment
07/28/08
Douglas Pratt
Douglas Pratt
DVDLaser

A variation on the theme of the family that pervades nearly all Ozu's pictures.

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
07/28/08
TV Guide's Movie Guide

It's slow, slightly old fashioned, and one of Ozu's weaker works, but even in one of his lesser works there's still much to marvel at and appreciate.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
12/30/06
David Parkinson
David Parkinson
Empire Magazine

As with much of Ozu's ouevre, verges on the melodramatic, but shows just enough restraint to prevent descent into such syrupy realms

Full Review Source: Cinemania | comment Comment
12/22/06
Dan Jardine
Dan Jardine
Cinemania

The sheer beauty of Ozu's exquisite (and typically eccentric) compositions and the expressive use of sound tell all you need know about the characters, their emotions and relationships.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
01/26/06
Geoff Andrew
Geoff Andrew
Time Out

No review available.

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07/23/05
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com

Ozu is, however, very special in his technique, which by the end of his career, had become very modest, lucid and lovely.

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
05/09/05
Roger Greenspun
Roger Greenspun
New York Times
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Like all of Ozu’s work, it’s incredibly human, and that can be a rarity in the artificial world of the cinema.

Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
08/04/04
Don Willmott
Don Willmott
Filmcritic.com

Provides endless pleasure.

Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | comment Comment
05/24/04
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

No review available.

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08/22/03
Carol Cling
Carol Cling
Las Vegas Review-Journal

Richly atmospheric, with its expressive use of colour, lyrical cutaways, and masterly interior compositions -- predominantly shot from Ozu's trademark low-level camera position -- impressively illustrating the director's visual artistry.

Full Review Source: BBC | comment Comment
07/29/03
Tom Dawson
Tom Dawson
BBC

All Ozu's films are great.

Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | comment Comment
07/16/03
Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

A poignant tale of everyday folk; their lives, loves and losses, rendered with exquisite care, compassion and no small measure of humanity by one of the masters of Japanese cinema.

Full Review Source: Channel 4 Film | comment Comment
05/24/03
Ali Catterall
Ali Catterall
Channel 4 Film

No review available.

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04/04/03
Matt Bailey
Matt Bailey
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His scenes pack far more emotional punch than any of Jerry Bruckheimer's explosive special effects.

Full Review Source: Old School Reviews | comment Comment
07/05/02
John A. Nesbit
John A. Nesbit
Old School Reviews

His spare, slow-moving films are not for all tastes, but once the rhythms are accepted, Ozu's work offers a unique emotional experience.

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
01/01/00
Dave Kehr
Dave Kehr
Chicago Reader
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Sooner or later, everyone who loves movies comes to Ozu. He is the quietest and gentlest of directors, the most humanistic, the most serene. But the emotions that flow through his films are strong and deep.

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01/01/00
Roger Ebert
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