Andi ChorleyJul 12, 2025

Last night's film was Floating Weeds (Japanese: 浮草, Hepburn: Ukigusa) a 1959 Japanese drama directed by Yasujirō Ozu, starring Nakamura Ganjirō II and Machiko Kyō. Considered one of the greatest films ever made, it is a remake of Ozu's own black-and-white silent film A Story of Floating Weeds (1934). - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_Weeds

#YasujirōOzu #japanesecinema #floatingweeds

KinetographMar 18, 2024
A Story of Floating Weeds (Yasujirō Ozu, 1934) #TCMParty #SilentSunday #YasujiroOzu #AStoryofFloatingWeeds #FloatingWeeds #SilentFilm #JapaneseFilm
KinetographMar 18, 2024
A Story of Floating Weeds (Yasujirō Ozu, 1934) was loosely based on The Barker (George Fitzmaurice, 1928). #TCMParty #SilentSunday #YasujiroOzu #AStoryofFloatingWeeds #FloatingWeeds #TheBarker #SilentFilm
Nevin ThompsonDec 12, 2023
Always loved the look and feel of this movie... confronting reality in an obscure island village on the sunny Inland Sea. And yet, a stage set with a curtain of rain. I think what makes this scene work particularly well is that both actors, being originally from Osaka, speak natural #Osaka dialect. Often imitated, but (irritatingly) never mastered unless you come from that part of Japan. #ozu #floatingweeds #cinema #japan #浮草 #小津 #film
Show threadMatthew SurridgeDec 21, 2022

… And then learn that the leader also has a mistress in the troupe who doesn't know about the son. And piece by piece a quiet everyday story starts to ramp up in drama. But not in the way or to the extent you might think. It's stunningly well-paced, with a fine eye for the beauty of the quotidian.

Next: I get enmeshed in the time of day.

#Ozu #FloatingWeeds #Film

IndigoDec 13, 2022

Yasujiro Ozu: Floating Weeds (1959) - Ending

"The gorgeous ending to Yasujiro Ozu's Floating Weeds (1959). The down and out Komajuro Arashi meets his mistress Sumiko (played masterfully by Ganjiro Nakamura and Machiko Kyo respectively) in a train station."

#YasujiroOzu #Ozu #FloatingWeeds #Cinephile #Cinema #CriterionCollection #Films #GanjiroNakamura #MachikoKyo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9SeE-oEoK8

Yasujiro Ozu: Floating Weeds (1959) - Ending

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Hossein SharifNov 12, 2022
I mean yes the world might be slowly inching toward annihilation... but why don't you just look at these shots from #ozu s #floatingweeds and forget all that...