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It is a remake of ozus own blackandwhite silent film a story of floating weeds 1934. The audio for the silent a story of floating weeds consisted of an newly commissioned piano score by donald sosin. Like the majority of director yasujiro ozus work, floating weeds is concerned with family relationships and interactions between different generations. Alexander v wesley floating weeds japanese poster one sheet. The reunion between the actor and his former lover and their illegitimate teenaged son who believes his father to be an uncle raises the ire of the. If the camera barely moves in floating weeds, its for good reason all the beauty and drama you need is right there in the frame. A brief history of directors remaking their own films and. Floating weeds masters of cinema original theatrical trailer. The film tells the story of a sensitive young boy searching for his mother he has never met during his summer vacation with only a.

A story of floating weeds 1934 the criterion collection. Yasujiro ozu the leader ganjiro nakamura of a traveling acting troupe meets his former mistress haruko sugimura and their illegitimate son hiroshi kawaguchi. Premiering in a glorious new 4k digital restoration, floating weeds is, in scholar donald richies estimation, the most pictorially beautiful of all of ozus pictures. Ozus families ukikusa poster, 1 of highresolution movie posters in this group. Oct 18, 2011 a story of floating weeds ozu, 1934 a traveling kabuki troupe on the verge of packing it in passes through a town where the troupes leader had a love affair many years before. However, as good as a story of floating weeds is, it didnt garner the same reception as the 1959 film. Floating weeds is a 1959 film directed by yasujiro ozu a thirdrate kabuki acting troupe arrives via ferry at a seaside town in japan. Dec 08, 2010 but 1932 and story of floating weeds 1934. Stories of floating weeds the current the criterion.

Jan 10, 2017 rodney dangerfield at his best on the tonight show starring johnny carson 1983 duration. It was the third consecutive ozu film to win this award. With takeshi sakamoto, choko iida, koji mitsui, emiko yagumo. Although his 1953 film, tokyo story, is generally considered his greatest film and one of the great films of all time, floating weeds is another of ozus brilliant, rhapsodic, and emotionally powerful statements of fallible people trying to understand the choices they make in this world and how those choices ripple across the waters of family and. Most notably, the 1934 film is silent, as ozu hadnt switched over to sound yet. A story of floating weeds was released on region 1 dvd on the criterion collection on april 20, 2004 as a twodisc set with floating weeds. Join kevin hudson and bradford simonsen at the gnomon school of visual effects for a behindthescenes look at how weeds, an independent short film created by a team of volunteer disney artists from over 40 countries of family origin. And sometimes this identity is made explicitin the lives of traveling actors, for example. Stories of floating weeds a story of floating weeds 1934.

Rodney dangerfield at his best on the tonight show starring johnny carson 1983 duration. Film 4 floating weeds 1959 is like a familiar piece of music that i can turn to for reassurance and consolation. I believe both were made in the wake of naruses floating clouds which apparently very much shook ozu up. A story of floating weeds floating weeds criterion. A troupe of travelling players arrive at a small seaport in the south of japan. But films such as tokyo story, late spring, early spring, early autumn and an autumn afternoon are available, and to look at any ozu film is to glimpse the whole. The troupes leader, kihachi takeshi sakamoto uses the occasion to meet his old lover and their grown son who believes kihachi is his uncle, but his current lover otaka pretty, ethereal rieko yagumo does not appreciate this when she learns about it, so. These both require one to synchronize oneself to a somewhat atypical ozu wavelength. Floating weeds boasts the visual beauty and deep tenderness of director. The movie is set in a small fishing village where an itinerant theater troupe has come to perform. Less than a dozen of his films are available in the west on video and only floating weeds is also on laserdisc. A story of floating weeds is a silent filmsilent film hung on in asia for a few years after it had been abandoned in the united states and europe. It also shares the directors amazingly serene yet appealing visual style, created through the use of the simplest means possible. An alternate audio track contains a commentary by japanese film historian donald richie.

A story of floating weeds reveals ozu in the midst of developing his mode of expression. The 25 best movie remakes of all time time out best. Floating weeds from 1959 is a film from yasujiro ozus final period, and also one of his first in color. In 1959, yasujiro ozu remade his 1934 silent classic a story of floating weeds in color with the celebrated cinematographer kazuo miyagawa rashomon, ugetsu. Yasujiro ozus 1959 film floating weeds, which i discuss in this clip, is a drama. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing a story of floating weeds near you. Encompassing a novelistic range of emotions and tones with the utmost delicacy, floating weeds stands tall even amidst a body of work as extraordinary as ozus. The earlier film has the silent intertitles with subtitles, yet somehow, it is so well acted that one can almost hear the characters voices. The story is average and the cinematography isnt as cathartic as most would delude. This remake of story of floating weeds, a movie ozu made in the 30s, is unusual for being one of the masters few films in colour, and in having a relatively dramatic plot that even allows for. Ozus career was so long that in one case, he made the same movie twice.

I love tokyo twilight ozus darkest film and like early spring perhaps his second darkest post40s film very much. See more ideas about yasujiro ozu, japanese film and cinema. Director kevin hudson and producer brad simonsen assembled an international team who volunteered their time to make this project. Komajuro arashi, the aging master of the troupe, goes to visit his old flame oyoshi and their son kiyoshi, even though kiyoshi believes komajuro is his uncle. Towards the end of his career, ozu returned to a story he had made some 25 years earlier as a silent, ukigusa monogatari a tale of floating weeds, aka a story of floating weeds, for this magnificent colour reworking, photographed by. A late work from japanese auteur yasujiro ozu, and a master class in his particular sense of composition.

See yasujiro ozus final silent film this saturday bleader. How american intellectuals learned to love ozu the. Weeds tells a story as old as the movies the ragstoriches saga of a troupe of theatrical amateurs who bring their show to broadway but it tells it with such a distinctive style, such a curious mixture of pathos and offhand wit, that it works for one more time. Oct 08, 2015 however, ozus most direct remake of his own work is 1959s floating weeds, based on 1934s a story of floating weeds. Oscars best picture winners best picture winners golden globes emmys san diego comiccon new york comiccon sundance film festival toronto intl film festival awards central festival central all events. Its story of triumph in the face of overwhelming situational borders is at the heart of the film s themes on empathy and immigration. Nov, 2012 floating weeds masters of cinema original theatrical trailer. In each, the director captures the joy and sadness in everyday life.

Floating weeds featuring ganjiro nakamura and machiko kyo is streaming. Apr 19, 2004 floating weeds, drifting down the leisurely river of our lives, has long been a favored metaphor in japanese prose and poetry. Its a drama and independent movie with a high imdb audience rating of 8. Ozu occasionally repeated himself in the stricter sense, as well. Together, the films offer a unique glimpse into the evolution of one of cinemas greatest directors. This plant, the ukigusa duckweed in english, floating aimlessly, carried by stronger currents, is seen as emblematic of our own journey. Telling the same story from opposite ends of ozus career. He told the story before, in 1934, only that was a black and. Ozu remade this film a quartercentury later in color and with sound as floating weeds, to international acclaim. Japanese film scholar donald richies comments on a story of floating weeds is passable, but nothing spectacular. Floating weeds reveals his distinct style at its pinnacle. A story of floating weeds reveals ozu in the midst of. The troupe is not doing very well, being reduced to playing dinky villages, and its future is in question. Ozus own remake of his 1934 silent film the story of floating weeds.

A kabuki actors mistress hatches a jealous plot to bring down her. Drawing inspiration from the nowobscure 1928 american carnivaltroupe drama the barker, ozu first made a story of floating weeds as a silent film despite the. A new doublefeature dvd set showcases one such instance, by pairing the 1934 silent a story of floating weeds with its 1959 remake, floating weeds. Floating weeds is available to stream on the criterion channel and kanopy. Telling the same story from opposite ends of ozus career, the two movies illustrate how he refined his style through the years. The above rating is for a story of floating weeds 1934, not for the remake, floating weeds. The film opens on a lazy, stagnant river as the troupe lays spread about on a boat deck drifting downstream. Weeds has been a passion project of ours for the past year and a half. While the ohayo felt more like an update of the earlier film with significant changes in plot and context, floating weeds remained more faithful to its earlier counterpart, though character were renamed. Marylouise parker est une actrice americaine, nee le 2 aout 1964 a fort jackson en caroline du sud. Floating weeds boasts the visual beauty and deep tenderness of director yasujiro ozus most memorable films and its one of the few the master shot. This 1959 ozu production centers on the likable but fallible leader of an itinerant acting troupe floating weeds being the japanese name for such groups, kimajuro, played brilliantly by ganjiro nakamura. Setting his later version in a seaside location, ozu otherwise preserves the details of his elegantly simple plot wherein an aging actor returns to a small town with his troupe and reunites with his former lover and illegitimate son, a.