A Story of Floating Weeds / Floating Weeds: Two Films by Yasujiro Ozu (#232) Giant Ape and Movies 1-3

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Sharing many thematic elements

The story follows the heroic efforts of the crypto-zoological agency Monarch as its members face off against a battery of god-sized monsters

gratuitous roasted weenies

1996)Release date: 29 May 2023Standard Edition Blu-rayInspired by Sei Shōnagon’s first-century diary

A Story of Floating Weeds / Floating Weeds: Two Films by Yasujiro Ozu (#232) Giant Ape and Movies 1-3In 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,