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Floating Weeds (Japanese: 浮草, Hepburn: Ukigusa) is a 1959 Japanese drama directed by Yasujirō Ozu, starring Nakamura Ganjirō II and Machiko Kyō. Considered one of the greatest films ever made, it is a remake of Ozu's own black-and-white silent film A Story of Floating Weeds (1934).
Nov 24, 1970 · With Ganjirô Nakamura, Machiko Kyô, Ayako Wakao, Hiroshi Kawaguchi. The head of a Japanese theatre troupe returns to a small coastal town where he left a son who thinks he is his uncle, and tries to make up for the lost time, but his current mistress grows jealous.
Mar 30, 1997 · Komajuro goes to visit a woman who runs a saki bar. Her name is Oyoshi ( Haruko Sugimura ), and years earlier she bore the actor's son. He is now a handsome young man named Kiyoshi (Hiroshi Kawaguchi), who works in the post office, and has been told that Komajuro is his uncle.
“Floating weeds, drifting down the leisurely river of our lives,” has long been a favored metaphor in Japanese prose and poetry. This plant, the ukigusa (duckweed in English), floating aimlessly, carried by stronger currents, is seen as emblemati …
The leader (Ganjirô Nakamura) of a traveling acting troupe meets his former mistress (Haruko Sugimura) and their illegitimate son (Hiroshi Kawaguchi).
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Mar 15, 2021 · Floating weeds (1959) by. yasujiro ozu. Publication date. 1959. Topics. film, cinema, movie, japanese cinema. Language. Japanese.
Jan 9, 2013 · This is certainly true of Floating Weeds (1959), a direct remake of his own 1934 film, A Story of Floating Weeds. The film bounces all about a small seaside town on the occasion of a performance troupe coming through to put on a show before eventually settling on a small group as its protagonists – Komajuro (Ganjiro Nakamura), the lead actor ...
Subtle, lyrical, and delicately bittersweet, Floating Weeds offers an excellent introduction to the cinema of Yasujiro Ozu—one of the greatest of all Japanese filmmakers, and until recently in the West, one of the least known.
Floating Weeds. Directed by Yasujiro Ozu • 1959 • Japan. Starring Ganjiro Nakamura, Machiko Kyo, Ayako Wakao. In 1959, Yasujiro Ozu remade his 1934 silent classic A STORY OF FLOATING WEEDS in color with the celebrated cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa (RASHOMON, UGETSU).
May 7, 2024 · In 1959, Yasujiro Ozu remade his 1934 silent classic A Story of Floating Weeds in color with celebrated cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa. Setting his later version in a seaside location, Ozu otherwise preserves the details of his elegantly simple plot wherein an aging actor returns to a small town with his troupe and reunites with his former ...
