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A Story of Floating Weeds is a japonais film of genre Drama directed by Yasujirō Ozu with Takeshi Sakamoto
A Story of Floating Weeds (1934)
Ukikusa monogatari
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Add to a movie listA Story of Floating Weeds (浮草物語, Ukikusa monogatari) is a 1934 silent film directed by Yasujirō Ozu which he later remade as Floating Weeds in 1959 in color. It won the Kinema Junpo Award for best film, the third consecutive year an Ozu film won, following I Was Born, But... and Passing Fancy.
^ "Kinema Junpo Awards for 1935". IMDB. Retrieved 2012-10-12.
^ "Kinema Junpo Awards for 1933". IMDB. Retrieved 2012-10-12.
^ "Kinema Junpo Awards for 1934". IMDB. Retrieved 2012-10-12.
Synopsis
The film starts with a travelling kabuki troupe arriving by train at a provincial seaside town. Kihachi Ichikawa (Takeshi Sakamoto), the head of the troupe, is a very popular actor. He takes time off to visit a former mistress Otsune (Chouko Iida), with whom he had a son years before. His son, now a student, does not know that Kihachi is his father, thinking him an uncle. Kihachi and his son, Shinkichi, spend a fruitful afternoon fishing for dace in a nearby river.Actors
Takeshi Sakamoto
(Kihachi)
Chishū Ryū
(Audience Member)
Chōko Iida
(Otsune)
Emiko Yagumo
(Otaka)
Tomio Aoki
(Tomio)
Yoshiko Tsubouchi
(Otoki)
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