Floating Weeds (1959)
Floating Weeds (1959) - Drama Movies 115 minutes. Ukikusa, Ukigusa, Floating Weeds, Ukikusa, Herbes flottantes, 부초, Erbe fluttuanti, La hierba errante. When a theater troupe's master visits his old flame, he unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpected events with devastating consequences. A remake of Ozu's own silent film The Story of Floating Weeds (1934). love, remake, family abandonment, mistress, unknown father, aging actor, paternity revealed, post war japan, illegitimate son, theater troupe, father son conflict, actors, woman scorned, absent father, revenge for cheating
Released: Nov 17, 1959
Runtime: 115 minutes
Genre: Drama
Stars: Ganjirō Nakamura II, Machiko Kyō, Ayako Wakao, Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Haruko Sugimura, Hitomi Nozoe
Crew: Yasujirō Ozu (Screenplay), Masaichi Nagata (Producer), Yasujirō Ozu (Director), Kōgo Noda (Screenplay), Kazuo Miyagawa (Director of Photography), Tadao Ikeda (Screenplay)
