A Story of Floating Weeds
Capsule by Jonathan Rosenbaum
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One of the last of Yasujiro Ozu's silent films, which he remade toward the end of his career, this 1934 feature has a fairly standard soap-opera plot--the lead actor in an impoverished acting troupe returns to a remote mountain village to meet his illegitimate son for the first time--but, needless to say, the Japanese master works wonders with it. Like other Ozu films of the period, this has a great deal of camera movement; stylistic purification would later lead him to eliminate such expressive devices. 86 min.

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