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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.
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Mar 30, 1997 · A classic Japanese drama by Yasujiro Ozu, about a traveling actor who faces a family secret and a love triangle in a fishing village. Roger Ebert praises Ozu's gentle and humanistic style, his visual compositions, and his music.
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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- Ganjirô Nakamura
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Aug 15, 2021 · Floating Weeds (Japanese: 浮草, Hepburn: Ukikusa) is a 1959 Japanese drama film directed by Yasujirō Ozu, starring Nakamura Ganjirō II and Machiko Kyō. It is a remake of Ozu's own black-and ...
A color remake of Ozu's 1934 silent classic, Floating Weeds is a bittersweet comedy-drama about an aging actor and his family. The film explores the themes of identity, loyalty, and nostalgia in postwar Japan with Ozu's signature style and sensitivity.
Jun 10, 2022 · In 1959, Yasujiro Ozu remade his 1934 silent classic A Story of Floating Weeds in color with the celebrated cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa (Rashomon, Ugetsu). Setting his later version in a ...
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