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A traveling actor meets his grown illegitimate son for the first time and must decide if he should maintain the secret of his paternity, or reveal himself as the young man's father.
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"This late-career triumph for Yasujiro Ozu is one of his most visually splendid works. Shot in vibrant Technicolor, the film (a remake of Ozu’s own 1934 silent classic A Story of Floating Weeds) tells the elegant tale of an aging actor who returns to the small seaside town where he once fathered a son, who has been raised to think the man is his uncle. FLOATING WEEDS is a rich, evocative tale of family and the life of the theater."
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