A Story of Floating Weeds

A Story of Floating Weeds
Kōji Mitsui and Chōko Iida in A Story of Floating Weeds
Directed byYasujirō Ozu
Written byTadao Ikeda
Yasujirō Ozu
Produced byShochiku
StarringTakeshi Sakamoto
Chōko Iida
Kōji Mitsui
Yoshiko Tsubouchi
CinematographyHideo Shigehara
Edited byHideo Shigehara
Distributed byShochiku
Release date
  • November 23, 1934 (1934-11-23)
Running time
86 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguagesSilent film
Japanese intertitles

A Story of Floating Weeds (浮草物語, Ukigusa monogatari) is a 1934 silent film directed by Yasujirō Ozu; the film was later remade as the sound film Floating Weeds, in color in 1959. A Story of Floating Weeds won the Kinema Junpo Award for Best Film of the Year in 1934.