A Story of Floating Weeds / Floating Weeds: Two Films by Yasujiro Ozu

This set pairs Yasujiro Ozu's 1934 silent film A Story of Floating Weeds with his 1959 color remake Floating Weeds. Both tell the same quietly devastating story of an aging itinerant actor who returns with his troupe to a small town, reuniting with a former lover and the grown son who believes him to be an uncle, to…