Yasujirô Ozu directs Chishû Ryû, Setsuko Hara and Yumeji Tsukioka in this Japanese drama where several people try to talk 27-year-old Noriko into marrying, but all she wants is to keep on caring for her widowed father.

Slow and sweet. A little less drinking than the previous Ozus I watched. A very sympathetic lead performance.

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Perfect Double Bill: Floating Weeds (1959)