© 1959 Kadokawa Pictures


Yasujiro OZU 小津安二郎

Floating Weeds

浮草

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A traveling theater troupe arrives in a small seaside town where its leader Komajuro reunites with his former lover Oyoshi and their now grown-up son. As Komajuro’s colleague and current mistress Sumiko learns about this, she gets jealous and bribes young actress Kayo (Ayako WAKAO) to seduce the son. Yasujiro OZU arranges this story into a series of calmly observed everyday scenes, presented in meticulously composed shots.

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浮草
Ukikusa

Japan 1959

119 minutes

Director
Yasujiro OZU

Script
Kogo NODA, Yasujiro OZU

Cinematography
Kazuo MIYAGAWA

Production
Daiei

World sales
KADOKAWA

Cast
Ganjiro NAKAMURA, Machiko KYO, Hiroshi KAWAGUCHI, Ayako WAKAO, Haruko SUGIMURA

About Yasujiro OZU
小津安二郎

1903 – 1963

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