... the reimagining takes what made its predecessor so effective and builds upon it. The relationships are explored more deeply, and the cinematography by esteemed cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa (in his only collaboration with Ozu) is breathtaking.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Oct 1, 2024

In his commentary track for Floating Weeds, Roger Ebert notes that Ozu’s films leave him feeling at peace, comparing unfavorably the raised heartbeat and constant excitement he gets reviewing Hollywood films.

| Jun 5, 2024

I know very few lovers of cinema who don't embrace Ozu.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 7, 2020

An exemplar of a career and an aesthetic universe that's extraordinary even in much weaker films than this one.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 30, 2017

...there isn't a detail in Floating Weeds that isn't meant to be carefully seen.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 10, 2014

This is a vibrant movie, one of his few in colour, and touches on universal themes through the story of a middle-aged actor and his young mistress coming with a second-rate kabuki company to a small coastal town.

| Jul 28, 2008

Ozu's familiar combination of melancholy regret and buoyant comic gaiety is beguilingly in evidence.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 28, 2008

A thoroughly absorbing affair.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 28, 2008

A variation on the theme of the family that pervades nearly all Ozu's pictures.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 28, 2008

It's slow, slightly old fashioned, and one of Ozu's weaker works, but even in one of his lesser works there's still much to marvel at and appreciate.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 30, 2006

As with much of Ozu's ouevre, verges on the melodramatic, but shows just enough restraint to prevent descent into such syrupy realms

| Original Score: 81/100 | Dec 22, 2006

The sheer beauty of Ozu's exquisite (and typically eccentric) compositions and the expressive use of sound tell all you need know about the characters, their emotions and relationships.

| Jan 26, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 23, 2005

Ozu is, however, very special in his technique, which by the end of his career, had become very modest, lucid and lovely.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 9, 2005

Like all of Ozu's work, it's incredibly human, and that can be a rarity in the artificial world of the cinema.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 4, 2004

Provides endless pleasure.

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 24, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 22, 2003

Richly atmospheric, with its expressive use of colour, lyrical cutaways, and masterly interior compositions -- predominantly shot from Ozu's trademark low-level camera position -- impressively illustrating the director's visual artistry.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 29, 2003

All Ozu's films are great.

| Original Score: A+ | Jul 16, 2003

A poignant tale of everyday folk; their lives, loves and losses, rendered with exquisite care, compassion and no small measure of humanity by one of the masters of Japanese cinema.

| May 24, 2003