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Original title: 浮草
Director: Yasujirō Ozu
Cast: Machiko Kyō Ayako Wakao Chishū Ryū Nakamura Ganjirō II Haruko Sugimura Hiroshi Kawaguchi
Genre: Drama
Premiere: November 17, 1959
Running time: 119 min
Country: Japan

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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Floating Weeds is a movie (1959) from Japan. Genre: drama. Directed by Yasujirō Ozu. Starring Machiko Kyō, Ayako Wakao, Chishū Ryū, Nakamura Ganjirō II and Haruko Sugimura. Running time: 119 min. Rating: 9.6/10.

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