Floating Weeds

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Floating Weeds
Directed by Yasujiro Ozu
Produced by Masaichi Nagata
Written by Kogo Noda
Yasujiro Ozu
Starring Ganjiro Nakamura
Machiko Kyô
Distributed by Daiei Motion Picture Company
The Criterion Collection
Release date(s) November 17, 1959 (Japan)
Running time 119 min.
Language Japanese
IMDb profile

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).

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Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
The opening shot of Floating Weeds exemplifies Ozu's attention to composition
The opening shot of Floating Weeds exemplifies Ozu's attention to composition

A group of travelling kabuki actors arrives in a seaside town. The leading actress (Machiko Kyô) 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.

  • Ganjiro Nakamura - Komajuro (troupe leader)
  • Machiko Kyo - 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

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.

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