A Story of Floating Weeds (1934)

19341h 26mdir. Yasujirō OzuJapaneseEmpire of Japan, Japansilent filmdrama film

With Chishū Ryū, Takeshi Sakamoto, Chōko Iida, Kōji Mitsui

Directed by Yasujirō Ozu

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A Story of Floating Weeds (Japanese: 浮草物語, Hepburn: Ukigusa monogatari) is a 1934 silent film directed by Yasujirō Ozu; he remade it — in sound and color — in 1959, shortening the title to Floating Weeds. The film won the Kinema Junpo Award for Best Film of the Year in 1934.

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