Floating Weeds (1959)
With Machiko Kyō, Ayako Wakao, Chishū Ryū, Nakamura Ganjirō II, Haruko Sugimura, Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Haruo Tanaka, Mutsuko Sakura
Directed by Yasujirō Ozu
Floating Weeds (Japanese: 浮草, Hepburn: Ukigusa) is a 1959 Japanese drama film directed and co-written by Yasujirō Ozu, starring Nakamura Ganjirō II, Machiko Kyō, Hiroshi Kawaguchi and Haruko Sugimura. It is a remake of Ozu's own black-and-white silent film A Story of Floating Weeds (1934), and follows a troupe of kabuki actors in a small seaside town, where the troupe's aging lead actor has an adult son with his former mistress.
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