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Drama 115 min
Rotten Tomatoes96%IMDb
A theater troupe master's visit with his old flame unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpected events with devastating consequences.
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**Summary: 8/10: a meta-theatrical morality tale about lies and consequence, elevated by Kazuo Miyagawa's stunning cinematography that frames life itself as theater, blurring the line between performance and authenticity with visual precision that remains impressive nearly seven decades later.** When a great lie comes home to roost, the owner of that lie may not be prepared for all the consequences. That's the moral engine driving Yasujiro Ozu's *Floating Weeds*, a 1959 color remake of his own 1934 silent film, and it carries the weight of classical Japanese morality from that era: duty, honor, and the debts we accumulate through our choices. What elevates this morality tale into something more complex is Ozu's meta-theatrical structure. The film follows a troupe of itinerant kabuki actors whose performances are, to put it charitably, mediocre. But the truly fascinating element is how that bad acting bleeds into their lives in the seaside village where aging troupe leader Komajuro reunites with his former lover and their illegitimate son. The line between theater and life disappears; these actors tend to perform even when the curtain is down, delivering their emotional crises with
Read the whole review on TMDBOzu dark mode. Color surprisingly got him painting characters with a different pallete and they all shady except the mom. Suppose it reflects a different era but quite entertaining
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