A Story of Floating Weeds / Floating Weeds: Two Films by Yasujiro Ozu (#232) Giant Ape 11 mins): modernist short by

11 mins): modernist short by B Vivian Braun and Irene Nicholson

Produced by Roger Corman

Throw in some mobsters led by a tough guy called The Bat and his enemy a masked superhero wrestler called The Angel

Brand new feature-length documentary - Dreaming of Death

gratuitous roasted weenies

A Story of Floating Weeds / Floating Weeds: Two Films by Yasujiro Ozu (#232) Giant Ape 11 mins): modernist short byIn 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,