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Floating Weeds
浮草
Directed by Yasujiro Ozu
1959•1h 55m•NR•★ 7.5
Drama
Synopsis
The master of an impoverished itinerant kabuki troupe brings his theater company to a quiet seaside town in southern Japan to secretly visit his former mistress and the grown illegitimate son who believes he is merely his uncle, inciting his jealous lead actress mistress to hire a young troupe ingenue to seduce the boy. Yasujiro Ozu's dazzling, color remake of his own 1934 silent film, photographed in glowing Agfacolor by legendary cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa.
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Cast & Crew
DirectorYasujirō Ozu
WriterKōgo NodaYasujirō OzuTadao Ikeda
CinematographyKazuo Miyagawa
MusicTakanobu Saitō
Principal Cast
Ganjirō Nakamura IIKomajuro Arashi
Machiko KyōSumiko
Ayako WakaoKayo
Hiroshi KawaguchiKiyoshi
Haruko SugimuraOyoshi
Hitomi NozoeAiko
Chishū RyūTheatre Owner
Kōji MitsuiKichinosuke
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Runtime1h 55m (115 mins)
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DirectorYasujiro Ozu
LanguagesJapanese
CountryJP
StudioDaiei
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