SurfWax News Index  |  Track News  |  Save/Exchange Information |  About Us News and Articles on Floating Weeds New DVDs: Ghost Rider, Breach  Jun 12, 2007 Late OzuFilms from the tail end of the life of Japanese filmmaking master Yasujiro Ozu (Floating Weeds, Tokyo Story, Late Spring) are gathered in this five-disc set that is the third release in Criterions Eclipse series, collections highlighting phases of world-class directors careers. The set has five films Ozu made from 1956-61: Early Spring, a glimpse of marriage and infidelity in postwar Tokyo; Tokyo Twilight, a tale of two sisters and their aging... (MSNBC -- Movies) Cinema: A Criterion Top 10  Nov 11, 2006 A STORY OF FLOATING WEEDS and FLOATING WEEDS, Yasujiro Ozu. Criterion has a gift for pairing films that belong together. (Time.com) Asian American Film Festival Picks  Mar 13, 2006 "Cafe Lumiere" is master Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien's tribute to his primary influence, the great Japanese filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu, who worked from the late 1920s through the 1960s, but is known for a heartbreaking and serene series of movies about the dissolution of the Japanese family unit in the years after World War II (notably "Late Spring," "Tokyo Story" and "Floating Weeds"). Podcast. (San Francisco Chronicle) Back to Movies News [ Terms Of Use | Privacy | About ] ©1998-2008 SurfWax, Inc. All rights reserved. Patents pending. Copyright SurfWax, Inc. 2008