A variation on the theme of the family that pervades nearly all Ozu's pictures.
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07/28/08
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... [More]
Starring: Machiko Kyô, Ganjiro Nakamura, Haruko Sugimura, Ayako Wakao
Director: Yasujiro Ozu
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Reviews for Floating Weeds
1 - 20 (sorted by comments)
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.
05/24/03
No review available.
08/22/03
As with much of Ozu's ouevre, verges on the melodramatic, but shows just enough restraint to prevent descent into such syrupy realms
12/22/06
His spare, slow-moving films are not for all tastes, but once the rhythms are accepted, Ozu's work offers a unique emotional experience.
01/01/00
Top CriticIt'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.
12/30/06
All Ozu's films are great.
07/16/03
Like all of Ozu’s work, it’s incredibly human, and that can be a rarity in the artificial world of the cinema.
08/04/04
Yasujiro Ozu's film is in color, and the screen compositions are incredible.
07/28/08
No review available.
07/23/05
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.
01/26/06
Provides endless pleasure.
05/24/04
His scenes pack far more emotional punch than any of Jerry Bruckheimer's explosive special effects.
07/05/02
No review available.
04/04/03
Ozu's familiar combination of melancholy regret and buoyant comic gaiety is beguilingly in evidence.
07/28/08
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.
07/28/08
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.
01/01/00
Top CriticOzu is, however, very special in his technique, which by the end of his career, had become very modest, lucid and lovely.
05/09/05
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.
07/29/03
A thoroughly absorbing affair.
07/28/08
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