A Story of Floating Weeds / Floating Weeds: Two Films by Yasujiro Ozu (#232) Radiance UK Mandarin and English mono audio

Mandarin and English mono audio on Tower of Death

Sylvia Céline

Soavi blowtorches a diabolic opus that will get you to claw your own face off with fear

in the shadow of their domineering father and coach

Breakout builds to an explosive climax when Colton launches an all-out desperate helicopter raid that will either rescue the prisoner or cost the lives of all involved

A Story of Floating Weeds / Floating Weeds: Two Films by Yasujiro Ozu (#232) Radiance UK Mandarin and English mono audioIn 1959, Yasujiro Ozu remade his 1934 silent classic A Story of Floating Weeds in color with celebrated cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa. Setting his later version in a seaside location, Ozu otherwise preserves the details of his elegantly simple plot wherein an aging actor returns to a small town with his troupe and reunites with his former lover and their son, a scenario that enrages his current mistress and results in heartbreak for all. Together,