Originally issued as a motion picture in 1959 in Japan. Its characters are like neighbors. With Ganjirô Nakamura, Machiko Kyô, Haruko Sugimura, Ayako Wakao. Floating Plants can be divided into two groups: free floating and rooted. Floating Weeds. Floating Weeds is actually a remake of Ozu’s A Story of Floating Weeds (1934), and shares much with its predecessor. Floating Weeds. Cast: Ganjirō Makamura, Machiko Kyō, Ayako Wakao. It is so atmospheric--so evocative of a quiet fishing village during a hot and muggy summer--that it envelops me. He has a private affair to settle. For me, “Floating Weeds” (1959) is like a familiar piece of music that I can turn to for reassurance and consolation.

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.

An alternate audio track contains a commentary by Japanese film historian Donald Richie ; another features a new score by composer Donald Sosin. 3000 Followers Celebration. A troupe of travelling players arrive at a small seaport in the south of Japan. Directed by Yasujirô Ozu. This 1959 Ozu production centers on the likable but fallible leader of an itinerant acting troupe ("floating weeds" being the Japanese name for such groups), Kimajuro, played brilliantly by Ganjiro Nakamura. Credits: Photography, Kazuo Miyagawa ; music, Takanori SaitoÌ . FLOATING WEEDS is the story of a troupe of traveling Kabuki players who straggle into a coastal village. Many years before, he had fathered a son with a woman who now runs a restaurant in the small town. TMDb Score. Directed by Yasujirô Ozu. Also known as: Drifting weeds.

As they go about drumming up an audience, one of them, "Komajuro" (Ganjiro Nakamura) goes off on his own. Title on cassette: Yasujiro Ozu's Floating weeds. 77. Floating Weeds na IMDb-u ((en)) Floating Weeds na AllMovie-u ((en)) 浮草 na Japanese Movie Database ((ja)) Voted #18 on The Arts and Faith Top 100 Films (2010) Criterion Collection essay by Donald Richie Floating Weeds subtitles. Free-floating surface plants derive their nutrient needs directly from the water and are not attached to the bottom while rooted floating attach to the sediment layer. In 1959, Yasujiro Ozu remade his 1934 silent classic A Story of Floating Weeds in color with the celebrated cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa (Rashomon, Ugetsu).


Picked by: BrunoLD, Michael’s Cinema Paradiso, and Kosta Jovanović. Komajuro Arashi, the aging master of the troupe, goes to visit his old flame Oyoshi and their son Kiyoshi, even though Kiyoshi believes Komajuro is his uncle. Floating Weeds is a modernized remake of A Story of Floating Weeds, Yasujiro Ozu’s great soap-opera silent filmfrom 1934. Floating Weeds Synopsis: A troupe of travelling players arrive at a small seaport in the south of Japan. A kabuki actor's mistress hatches a jealous plot to bring down her lover's son. Not Yet Rated 1 hr 55 min Drama. Floating Weeds is at times a comparably light and funny Ozu film, but like so many it is about change and a part of life coming to an end.Floating Weeds is about a non-traditional life, without security or stability, and people trying to forge a family after the right time has passed. "A Janus Film presentation." With Takeshi Sakamoto, Chôko Iida, Kôji Mitsui, Emiko Yagumo. Description: It uses many of the Master’s previous favorite melodramatic devices, for instance the idea of a missing parent dramatically reappearing and the … AKA: Drifting Weeds Floating Weeds, Ukikusa. Komajuro Arashi, the aging master of the troupe, goes to visit his old flame Oyoshi and their son Kiyoshi, even though Kiyoshi believes Komajuro is his uncle. A troupe of travelling players arrive at a small seaport in the south of Japan. The film opens on a lazy, stagnant river as the troupe lays spread about on a boat deck drifting downstream. "FLO 050"--Container. A Story of Floating Weeds was released on Region 1 DVD on The Criterion Collection on April 20, 2004 as a two-disc set with Floating Weeds.