… And then learn that the leader also has a mistress in the troupe who doesn't know about the son. And piece by piece a quiet everyday story starts to ramp up in drama. But not in the way or to the extent you might think. It's stunningly well-paced, with a fine eye for the beauty of the quotidian.

Next: I get enmeshed in the time of day.

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Yasujiro Ozu: Floating Weeds (1959) - Ending

"The gorgeous ending to Yasujiro Ozu's Floating Weeds (1959). The down and out Komajuro Arashi meets his mistress Sumiko (played masterfully by Ganjiro Nakamura and Machiko Kyo respectively) in a train station."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9SeE-oEoK8

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