About the film
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. Produced and distributed by Daiei Film, the film was released in Japan on November 17, 1959. Since its initial release, Floating Weeds has been widely acclaimed by both critics and filmmakers, and is considered one of the greatest films ever made.
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How to watch it together from different places
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