Floating Weeds
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| Floating Weeds | |
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 Poster to Floating Weeds (1959) |
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| Directed by | Yasujiro Ozu |
| Produced by | Masaichi Nagata |
| Written by | Kogo Noda Yasujiro Ozu |
| Starring | Ganjiro Nakamura Machiko Kyō |
| Distributed by | Daiei Motion Picture Company The Criterion Collection |
| Release date(s) | November 17, 1959 (Japan) |
| Running time | 119 min. |
| Language | Japanese |
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Floating Weeds (浮草 Ukikusa?) is a 1959 film directed by Yasujiro Ozu and shot in colour by Kazuo Miyagawa, one of Japan's most highly regarded cinematographers. It is a remake of Ozu's own black-and-white silent film A Story of Floating Weeds (1934).
Early on, there is a travelling shot filmed from a ferry as it docks at the harbour. This is the only instance of camera movement in Ozu's six colour films.
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[edit] Plot summary
A group of travelling kabuki actors arrives in a seaside town in the Inland Sea. The leading actress (Machiko Kyō) is angered to learn that her lover, the troupe's lead actor (Ganjiro Nakamura), has a secret mistress and grown-up son in the town, and decides to torment them by bribing another actress from the troupe to seduce the son.
[edit] Cast
- Ganjiro Nakamura - Komajuro (troupe leader)
- Machiko Kyō - Sumiko (his mistress)
- Hiroshi Kawaguchi - Kiyoshi (his son)
- Haruko Sugimura - Oyoshi (Kiyoshi's mother)
- Ayako Wakao - Kayo (younger actress)
- Hitomi Nozoe - Aiko
- Chishu Ryu - Theatre owner
- Hideo Mitsui - Kichinosuke
- Haruko Tanaka - Yatazo
- Yosuke Irie - Sugiyama
- Hikaru Hoshi - Kimura
- Mantarô Ushio - Sentaro
- Kumeko Urabe - Shige
- Toyoko Takahashi - Aiko no haha
- Mutsuko Sakura - O-Katsu
[edit] DVD release
Floating Weeds was released on Region 1 DVD by The Criterion Collection on April 20, 2004 as a two-disc set with A Story of Floating Weeds. [1] An alternate audio track contains a commentary by Roger Ebert.
[edit] External links
- Floating Weeds at the Internet Movie Database
- Criterion Collection essay by Donald Richie
- DVD review of film
- 浮草 (Ukikusa) (Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved on 2007-07-13.
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