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Ukigusa monogatari [digital videodisc] = A story of floating weeds / Shochiku Kinema Kabushiki Kaisha ; gensaku Jēmusus Maki ; kyakushoku Ikeda Tadao ; kantoku Ozu Yasujirō. Ukigusa = Floating weeds / Daiei Kabushiki Kaisha seisaku ; kyakuhon Noda Kōgo, Ozu Yasujirō ; kantoku Ozu Yasujirō.

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[Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, [2004]

Entertainers -- Japan -- Drama.

Motion pictures, Japanese.

Japan -- Social life and customs -- Drama.

Criterion collection 232.

Classic collection (Chicago, Ill.)

2 videodiscs : sd., b&w and col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Story of floating weeds / Janus Films ; a Shochiku film ; screenplay by Tadao Ikeda ; directed by Yasujiro Ozu. (86 min.) -- Floating weeds / Janus Films ; produced by Masaichi Nagata ; screenplay by Yasujiro Ozu, Kogo Noda ; directed by Yasujiro Ozu. (119 min.).

In 1959, Yasujiro Ozu remade his 1934 silent film: A Story of Floating Weeds in color and sound with the cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa (Rashomon, Ugetsu). 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 reunities with his former lover and illegitimate son, a scenario that enrages his current mistress and results in heartbreak for all. A Story of Floating Weeds reveals Ozu in the midst of developing his mode of expression; Floating weeds reveals his distinct style at its pinnacle. In each, the director captures the joy and sadness in everyday life.

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