---
title: 'Floating Weeds (1959)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Yasujirō Ozu'
released: '1959-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 119
genres:
  - 'Drama'
countries:
  - 'Japan'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/floating-weeds-1959'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053390/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Floating Weeds (1959)

1959 · 119 min · Drama · Japan

Original title: 浮草

## Synopsis

Floating Weeds  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.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Yasujirō Ozu](https://cinepixo.com/people/yasujiro-ozu)
- **Screenplay:** [Yasujirō Ozu](https://cinepixo.com/people/yasujiro-ozu), [Kōgo Noda](https://cinepixo.com/people/kogo-noda)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Toshiro Mayuzumi](https://cinepixo.com/people/toshiro-mayuzumi)
- **Producer:** [Masaichi Nagata](https://cinepixo.com/people/masaichi-nagata)
- **Director of Photography:** [Kazuo Miyagawa](https://cinepixo.com/people/kazuo-miyagawa)

## Cast

- [Nakamura Ganjirō II](https://cinepixo.com/people/nakamura-ganjiro-ii)
- [Ayako Wakao](https://cinepixo.com/people/ayako-wakao)
- [Chishū Ryū](https://cinepixo.com/people/chishu-ryu)
- [Machiko Kyō](https://cinepixo.com/people/machiko-kyo)
- [Mutsuko Sakura](https://cinepixo.com/people/mutsuko-sakura)
- [Haruko Sugimura](https://cinepixo.com/people/haruko-sugimura)
- [Haruo Tanaka](https://cinepixo.com/people/haruo-tanaka)
- [Hiroshi Kawaguchi](https://cinepixo.com/people/hiroshi-kawaguchi)

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Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/floating-weeds-1959
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