Floating Weeds
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Floating Weeds is a 1959 film directed by Yasujiro Ozu and shot (in colour) by Kazuo Miyagawa, one of Japan's most highly regarded cinematographers.
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Film plot summary
A group of travelling kabuki actors is stranded in a seaside town when their tour collapses for lack of finances. The leading actress (Machiko Kyo) is angered to learn that her lover, the troupe's lead actor (Ganjiro Nakamura), has a secret mistress and grown-up son in the town, and decides to torment them by bribing another actress from the troupe to seduce the son.
