Floating Weeds (1959)

“Let me part tonight as his uncle, as before. Next time I come back here I’ll be a good actor” There is something fundamentally human about Yasujirō Ozu‘s films. Low-key, underplayed and melancholic, both Floating Weeds and the more famous Tokyo Story (1953) drill down into the personal nature of the protagonists but in such a subtle way that…