Floating Weeds
1959 · Movie · 115 min · ★ 7.5 · 91% critics
A traveling theater troupe arrives in a quiet seaside town, where its leader reconnects with someone from his past. As old ties collide with present loyalties, jealousy and pride ripple through the group, pulling several people into a painful tangle of misunderstandings and hard choices.
Also known as Ukikusa
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Details
- Original title
- 浮草
- Years
- 1959
- Release date
- 1959-11-17
- Language
- Japanese
- Runtime
- 115 min
- Critic score
- 91/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.5/10 (201 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you want a quiet, emotionally charged family-and-relationship drama with a measured pace and striking color imagery; Not for you if you need fast plotting or instantly likable characters, like in Tokyo Twilight.
Pros: rich color visuals; tense relationship drama; strong performances | Cons: slow build; hard-to-like characters; melodramatic turns
Themes
- love
- remake
- family abandonment
- mistress
- unknown father
- aging actor
- paternity revealed
- post war japan
- illegitimate son
- theater troupe
- father son conflict
- actor
- +3 more
Cast & crew
Ganjirō Nakamura II
as Komajuro Arashi
Machiko Kyō
as Sumiko
Ayako Wakao
as Kayo
Hiroshi Kawaguchi
as Kiyoshi
Haruko Sugimura
as Oyoshi
Hitomi Nozoe
as Aiko
Chishū Ryū
as Theatre Owner
Kōji Mitsui
as Kichinosuke
Haruo Tanaka
as Yatazo
- YI
Yosuke Irie
as Sugiyama
Directed by Yasujirō Ozu