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Floating Weeds
starring: Ganjiro Nakamura, Machiko Kyô, Haruko Sugimura, Ayako Wakao, Hiroshi Kawaguchi
directed by: Yasujiro Ozu

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Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302969672
Format: Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6302969670
Label: Homevision
Manufacturer: Homevision
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Homevision
Release Date: June 06, 2000
Running Time: 119 minutes
Studio: Homevision
Theatrical Release Date: November 24, 1970
Sales Rank: 12275

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Description:
Yasujiro Ozu's eloquently simple films capture the lives of Japanese middle-class families with a warmth and humanity that is especially appealing to Western audiences. Floating Weeds tells the story of an aging actor who is reunited with his former lover and their illegitimate son. The actor's current mistress, enraged by his waning attention, spins an elaborate web of deceit that leads to heartbreak for them all. A stirring visual poem, Floating Weeds beautifully details the joy and pain of everyday life.

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- as good as a bag of honey mustard pretzel pieces
I love the visual of this movie. It's perfect. Everybody see it. I would give this movie as a gift for people who like colors.

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- A Gem
A true family movie about a bad father coming back to save his son from the temptations of this world. It has beautiful photography and the story is very realistic and touching.

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- The Quiet, Usual Ozu Masterpiece
I have only really discovered Ozu in the last year or so and in my mid-- life it is like entering a bright new world. I have recently watched Floating Weeds for the second time (having ordered it on video). The first time I thought it an unusual film- though not one of his best. I have now completely revised this opinion and consider it a supreme masterpiece. Ozu astonishes with a quiet directness I find moving , completely absorbing and exhilarating to watch. I realize the theatre troup which comes into the town, contstructs its little Kabuki world and then fades into nothing is a perfect vehicle and symbol for what Ozu is consistently portraying in all his little plays: the transient , troubling beauty of the world . The transient troubling little dramas af human relationships.The imagery ... Read More

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- One of Ozu's best
This movie is actually a re-make of a silent film (Story of Floating Weeds) Ozu directed in the 1930's. The 1959 version has both sound and color. It was a collaboration between two studios, Shochiku (Ozu's film company) and Daiei. This was a rare chance for Ozu to work with Daiei's great cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa, the man who filmed such classics as Ugetsu and Rashomon. The Daiei studio also provided some of the leading ladies of their time, Machiko Kyo and Ayako Wakao.

The acting in this movie is first-rate and the cinematography is lyrical and beautiful. Pay attention to the rich colors in this film, especially the reds. The movie tells the story of a failing troupe of Kabuki players who drift (like floating weeds) into a fishing village for their next (and ultimately last) ... Read More

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- Quietly Powerful, Beautiful Filmmaking!!!
The films of Yasujiro Ozu always has a silent poignancy that has been unmatched in cinema. He is the creator of his own cinematic 'style'. It consists of low camera angles, no close-ups, no camera movement, the camera stays still. Probably the most quietly precise director of foreign cinema, he is know as the most 'Japanese' director of Japan's filmmakers. In this film he tells the story of an acting troupe who come to a small fishing town. To reveal more of the plot would be to deny you the dramatic impact of the film. While certainly not a technical marvel, it's raw power to move us remains untouched, and even more because of Ozu's direction. As we see the film evolve we feel him slowly coming toward us, but he doesn't creep at us, he puts his friendly hand on our shoulder and makes ... Read More

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