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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
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.
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.
His spare, slow-moving films are not for all tastes, but once the rhythms are accepted, Ozu's work offers a unique emotional experience.
Top CriticSooner 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.
Top CriticAs with much of Ozu's ouevre, verges on the melodramatic, but shows just enough restraint to prevent descent into such syrupy realms
Provides endless pleasure.
Yasujiro Ozu's film is in color, and the screen compositions are incredible.
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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.
Like all of Ozu’s work, it’s incredibly human, and that can be a rarity in the artificial world of the cinema.
Ozu's familiar combination of melancholy regret and buoyant comic gaiety is beguilingly in evidence.
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Ozu is, however, very special in his technique, which by the end of his career, had become very modest, lucid and lovely.
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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.
His scenes pack far more emotional punch than any of Jerry Bruckheimer's explosive special effects.
All Ozu's films are great.
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.
A thoroughly absorbing affair.
A variation on the theme of the family that pervades nearly all Ozu's pictures.
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