A Story of Floating Weeds

Ozu had been making good movies for a while. He’d been doing things in those movies that were distinctly Ozu consistently, but A Story of Floating Weeds is where things really seem to gel completely in that well-known Ozu-way. Previously, he’d either been working between genres (gangster movies, predominantly), leaning too far into melodrama (like in A Mother Should be Loved), or using comedy that bordered on slapstick. I don’t think most of these things are bad, or that his earlier films ar...