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Floating Weeds (1959)

Directed by Yasujirō Ozu · Cinematography by Kazuo Miyagawa

119 min65 frames

Drama

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Floating Weeds (1959) movie still: medium — A traditional Japanese restaurant interior features a raised platform with patterned tiles and tatami.…Floating Weeds (1959) movie still: wide — A concrete breakwater extends into a calm ocean under a clear, pale blue sky. A glass bottle sits upright…Floating Weeds (1959) movie still: fullbody — A stone courtyard features a water pump and red floral plants against a stone wall. An elderly man…Floating Weeds (1959) movie still: medium — A traditional Japanese room features dark wood paneling, floor mats, and sliding paper doors. An older…Floating Weeds (1959) movie still: medium — A Japanese restaurant features decorative koinobori carp streamers in the background and stone walls. A…Floating Weeds (1959) movie still: fullbody — A narrow outdoor walkway is enclosed by tall stone retaining walls and wooden structures. A young man…Floating Weeds (1959) movie still: medium — An interior space features sliding screens with red, white, and blue grid panels. A man in a patterned…Floating Weeds (1959) movie still: medium — A man sits at a striped table inside a simple, open-sided shop structure. He holds a metal spoon while…Floating Weeds (1959) movie still: medium — A concrete breakwater extends into the sea under a clear, pale blue sky. Two men sit on the edge of the…Floating Weeds (1959) movie still: fullbody — A traditional Japanese room features sliding windows looking out onto a tiled roof. Two men stand…Floating Weeds (1959) movie still: establishing — Traditional dark wooden Japanese buildings sit atop a hill covered in dense green foliage. Tall…Floating Weeds (1959) movie still: medium — A traditional room with tatami mats features shoji screens and a bamboo shade window. A young man and…Floating Weeds (1959) movie still: wide — A narrow Japanese village alleyway flanked by weathered wooden buildings and stone retaining walls. A man…Floating Weeds (1959) movie still: medium — A traditional Japanese interior with paper screen doors framing the dark background. A young man sits…Floating Weeds (1959) movie still: medium — A flat stretch of dark sand sits under a clear blue sky. A young man sits cross-legged while looking…Floating Weeds (1959) movie still: medium — A traditional Japanese room features shoji screens, tatami mats, and an outdoor courtyard view. Four…
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What is Floating Weeds about?

When a theater troupe's master visits his old flame, he unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpected events with devastating consequences.

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.

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What does the cinematography of Floating Weeds look like?

Across 65 sampled frames, Floating Weeds builds its coverage from medium shots (55% of the sample), with wide compositions (25%) carrying much of the rest. Cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa keeps 63% of it in soft, naturalistic light. Daylight carries most of the picture. Vintage glass shapes the frame. Deep focus keeps foreground and background readable at once in 66% of the frames. The production design places the film in the 1960s.

What is the color palette of Floating Weeds?

The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Floating Weeds (1959) are #30312e, #f9f9f6, #d2d1cb, #51524c, #8d938c, #141311 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.

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