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<BODY bgcolor="#CCCC99"> <font size="2"><p>DVD Review <font size="4"><br><i>Stories of Floating Weeds</i></font> <br>by Derek Hill</font> <p>Although his 1953 film, <i>Tokyo Story</i>, is generally considered his greatest film and one of the great films of <i>all </i>time, <i>Floating Weeds</i> is another of Ozu's brilliant, rhapsodic, and emotionally powerful statements of fallible people trying to understand the choices they make in this world and how those choices ripple across the waters of family and friendship. Focusing on a small, itinerant kabuki troupe (and a rather bad one at that) and their leader, Komajuro (Ganjiro Nakamura), as they play a series of dates in a small provincial fishing village, Ozu and his co-screenwriter Kogo Noda carefully detail all of the boredom, inter-relationship conflict, and humor that goes on behind the "showbiz" curtain. </body>