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Aro Recommended Floating Weeds

 

aka: Ukigusa
Japan 1959, 119 + 86 minutes
Dir. Yasujiro Ozu
In Japanese with English subtitles
Rating: [PG]
Genres: Foreign Cinema, Drama, Classics

Topics: Mid-life.

 

Aroview: An aging actor who returns with his troupe to his provincial town, and becomes caught between his long-lost family and his jealous mistress.

Depicting the rapture and pain of everyday life in exquisite seaside summer colours, this a fine example of Ozu’s mastery of tone.

This two-disc "Criterion Collection" (rental copy) also features Ozu's original pre-war melodrama, A STORY OF FLOATING WEEDS (B/W Silent 1934).

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DVD Features

Booklet features a six page essay by film historian Donald Richie.

  • audio commentary
  • trailers
  • aspect ratio: 4:3
 

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