Floating Weeds

Floating Weeds
Floating Weeds
	Theatrical release poster
Japanese	浮草
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Directed by	Yasujirō Ozu
Written by	Kogo Noda; Yasujirō Ozu;
Produced by	Masaichi Nagata
Starring	Machiko Kyō; Hiroshi Kawaguchi; Hitomi Nozoe; Ayako Wakao; Nakamura Ganjirō II; Chishū Ryū; Haruko Sugimura; Kōji Mitsui; Haruo Tanaka; Yosuke Irie; Hikaru Hoshi; Mantarō Ushio;
Cinematography	Kazuo Miyagawa
Edited by	Toyo Suzuki
Music by	Kojun Saitō
Production; company	Daiei Film
Distributed by	Daiei Film
Release date	November 17, 1959 (Japan);
Running time	119 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

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.