Floating Weeds
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).
- Year : 1959
- Country : Japan
- Genre : Drama
- Studio : Daiei Film
- Keyword : 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
- Director : Yasujirō Ozu
- Cast : Ganjirō Nakamura II, Machiko Kyō, Ayako Wakao, Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Haruko Sugimura, Hitomi Nozoe