Floating Weeds (1959)

I've been working my way through Yasujiro Ozu's filmography, and Floating Weeds is the latest. While most of his films are in black & white, Floating Weeds is one of five he did in color. As soon as I found out Roger Ebert did the commentary on the Criterion Collection disc, I moved it to #1 in my Netflix dvd queue (his commentary on Citizen Kane is not to be missed). Here is a sample. Of couse it's included in his Great Movies 4 star list. You may recognize Machiko Kyo as she was in Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon (Samurai's wife) and Kenji Mizoguchi's Ugetsu (Lady Wakasa). And Chishu Ryu, who is in many of Ozu's films (the father in Tokyo Story), makes an appearance. So far, I would rank all of his films that I've seen as higher than 8/10. Easy.

So far, I've seen Late Spring (1949), Late Autumn (1963), Tokyo Twilight (1957), The End of Summer (1961), Equinox Flower (1958), Tokyo Story (1953). I'll have several Ozu films in my Netflix dvd queue for some time to come.

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