Shot by regular Kenji Mizoguchi and Akira Kurosawa lenser Kazuo Miyagawa (Rashōmon, Ugetsu), this remake of Yasujirō Ozu’s earlier A Story of Floating Weeds (1934) is faithful to the original, save for location which he updates to the Seto Inland Sea. When the aging lead actor of a traveling theater troupe docks in the seaside town of his former mistress and their now-teenaged child, his current lover, caught completely off guard, plots her revenge. In the film’s title lies a metaphor for the leisurely, at times lonely, pace of life, a recurring image in Japanese poetry that signals Ozu’s enchantment with the quotidian.