An alternate audio track contains a commentary by japanese film historian donald richie. Floating weeds 1959 is like a familiar piece of music that i can turn to for reassurance and consolation. Already by 1934 the directors visual style is fullyformed, but his over reliance on statically staged scenes of talking heads, in a silent film, mars. It is so atmosphericso evocative of a quiet fishing village during a hot and muggy summerthat it envelops me. With takeshi sakamoto, choko iida, koji mitsui, emiko yagumo. A thirdrate kabuki acting troupe arrives via ferry at a seaside town in japan. Criterion has released a twodisc set containing a pair of ozus movies. A late work from japanese auteur yasujiro ozu, and a master class in his particular sense of composition. Like the majority of director yasujiro ozus work, floating weeds is concerned with family relationships and interactions between different generations. 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 advent of sound by that time, and criterions dvd features a sublime, newly recorded original score that sounds and feels like its been part of the film all along.
Stories of floating weeds a story of floating weeds floating weeds the criterion collection. The film takes place during a hot summer in 1958 at a seaside town on. His mistress sumiko, played by the pretty and wise machiko kyo, is loyal to him, as are the other veteran actors, but its clear that the troupe is failing. We have provided a list of common lake and pond weeds found in minnesota.
Select any poster below to play the movie, totally free. 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. The two most common types of floating weeds are duckweed and watermeal. For some reason it always reminds me of the music in mr. Floating weeds ukigusa in 1959, near the end of his career, japanese director yasujiro ozu returned to a story he had directed twentyfive years earlier, remaking his silent film classic a story of floating weeds as floating weeds. Ozu astonishes with a quiet directness i find moving, completely absorbing. 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. For me, floating weeds 1959 is like a familiar piece of music that i can turn to for reassurance and consolation. The films of yasujiro ozu are probably the opposite of random in their. Floating weeds masters of cinema original theatrical trailer. Rereleased to celebrate the centenary of yasujiro ozus birth, floating weeds ukigusa was one of the japanese directors final films. The movies music, by kojun saito, is lilting and nostalgic. Japanese film scholar donald richies comments on a story of floating weeds is passable, but nothing spectacular. A quartercentury later, he remade the film as floating weeds, retaining the same.
Much had changed for ozu in the intervening 25 years. Among its members are komajuro, an older man who is the owner. Ozu occasionally repeated himself in the stricter sense, as well. If the floating weeds you are trying to get rid of have roots attached to the bottom such as water lilies or watershield, then they are actually emergent weeds. Ten greatest films of all time roger ebert roger ebert. A remake of his own 1934 silent classic about an aging theater troupe actors reunion with his former lover and their son, floating weeds was yasujiro ozu s first foray into color filmmaking and the only one of his films shot by miyagawa. As in floating weeds, much of the film is funny notably a stalking sequence and a hideandseek scene that make virtuoso play with point of view, and a delightfully untimely fart gag, but towards the end it takes on a dark solemnity unusual even in ozus most poignant work. It is an interesting drama, one of whose themes is forgiveness. Yasujiro ozu is the kind of filmmaker, like robert altman in the 70s or godard in. Another gem and only the atypically emphatic music disappoints. Floating weeds a late work from japanese auteur yasujiro ozu, and a master class in his particular sense of composition.
Floating weeds masters of cinema original theatrical. Nov, 2012 floating weeds 1959 is like a familiar piece of music that i can turn to for reassurance and consolation. 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. As the film opens, we hear the offscreen putter of an exhausted boat engine. The film was a remake of his 1934 silent film the story of floating weeds. Ganjiro nakamura, machiko kyo, haruko sugimura, ayako wakao, hiroshi kawaguchi, hitomi nozoe, chishu ryu, koji mitsui, haruo tanaka, yosuke irie, hikaru hoshi, mantaro ushio, hideo shigehara, kazuo miyagawa, yasujiro ozu, hideo shigehara, masaichi nagata, kogo noda, tadao. It is a remake of ozus own blackandwhite silent film a story of floating weeds 1934. Floating weeds yasujiro ozu cinematography by kazuo miyagawa tokyo story. The other dvd is floating weeds color, sound, a literal remake of the movie, which i watched second. Keeping the arc of ozus career in mind makes for an especially. A thoroughly absorbing affair total film ozus familiar combination of melancholy regret and buoyant comic gaiety is beguilingly in. Get 50% off hundreds of family movies when you preorder on fandangonow today. A story of floating weeds 1934 the criterion collection.
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 the movie is set in a small fishing village where an itinerant theater troupe has come to perform. Telling the same story from opposite ends of ozus career, the two movies illustrate how he refined his style through the years. Floating weeds is a 1959 film directed by yasujiro ozu. Most notably, the 1934 film is silent, as ozu hadnt switched over to sound yet. The first time i sat down to watch ozu yasujiros 1959 floating weeds this would have been in 2005, i couldnt get past the second shot not including the opening credits. Both of these types of plants can be effectively controlled with the use of fluridone.
He leads a traveling acting troupe that performs cutrate kabuki in the provinces floating weeds is a japanese term for itinerent actors. His movies were very personal intimate affairs, often dealing with the dynamics of the relationships between family members. 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. The japanese film, which some called complicit in the terrible pacific war with a cycle of national policy films, had in the postwar years become perhaps the greatest humanist cinema of the 20th century. From 1923 until his death, yasujiro ozu 19031963 made more than 50 movies. Floating weeds at once rejects and embraces ozus familiar theme of. It is so atmosphericso evocative of a quiet fishing village during a hot and muggy. The head of a japanese theatre troupe returns to a small coastal town where he left a son who thinks he is his uncle, and tries to make up for the lost time, but his current mistress grows jealous. 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. 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.
The leader of a traveling acting troupe meets his former mistress and their illegitimate son. Horror film history 70s horror films kindertrauma neil gaiman. A kabuki actors mistress hatches a jealous plot to bring down her lovers son. I am sure than eisensteins the battleship potemkin is a great film, but its not going on my list simply so i can impress people. The first time i sat down to watch ozu yasujiros 1959 floating weeds this would have been in 2005, i couldnt get past the second shot not including the opening credits, white and red text against a yellowing burlap background.
Ozu made 54 films, starting with silents in 1927 and continuing until an autumn afternoon 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. 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. Floating weeds 1959 floating weeds ukigusa, 1959, a contemplative tale about a traveling kabuki troupe on its last legs, is arguably yasujiro ozus most beautiful color film thanks to the great japanese cinematographer kazuo miyagawa and ozus meticulous visual design.
The earlier film has the silent intertitles with subtitles, yet somehow, it is so well acted that one can almost hear the characters voices. If you need help controlling pond weeds, please call 6514333283. 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. Floating weeds i do not expect many readers to have heard of this film, or of yasujiro ozu, who directed it, but this japanese master, who lived from 1903 to 1963 and whose prolific career bridged the silent and sound eras, saw things through his films in a way that no one else saw. Swedish, most of ozus films were not circulated outside of japan until the 70s. Floating weeds is a 1959 japanese drama film directed by yasujiro ozu, starring ganjiro nakamura and machiko kyo. Floating weeds 1959 ukikusa original title not rated 1h 59min drama 24 november 1970 usa the head of a japanese theatre troupe returns to a small coastal town where he left a son who thinks he is his uncle, and tries to make up for the lost time, but his current mistress grows jealous. Stories of floating weeds a story of floating weeds 1934. Equinox flower 1958 and good morning 1959, both photographed by his regular collaborator yuharu. 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.
Stories of floating weeds a story of floating weeds. Recently restored, the film s bold colors are given dazzling new life. A beautiful film, entirely uninterested in the one map it shows, but a beautiful. On imdb tv, you can catch hollywood hits and popular tv series at no cost. Floating weeds ukigusa, 1959, a contemplative tale about a traveling kabuki troupe on its last legs, is arguably yasujiro ozus most beautiful color film thanks to the great japanese cinematographer kazuo miyagawa and ozus meticulous visual design. In 1959, yasujiro ozu remade his 1934 silent classic a story of floating weeds in color with the celebrated cinematographer kazuo miyagawa rashomon, ugetsu. The first step in pond weed control is identifying the types of invasive species growing your water. The troupe is not doing very well, being reduced to playing dinky villages, and its future is in question. My first impression is, for 1959 movies the cinematography are okay. Google has this listed as one of the ten greatest films, so i bought it. It also shares the directors amazingly serene yet appealing visual style, created through the use of the simplest means possible.
Oct 08, 2015 however, ozus most direct remake of his own work is 1959s floating weeds, based on 1934s a story of floating weeds. The film opens on a lazy, stagnant river as the troupe lays spread about on a boat deck drifting downstream. These and other comparisons abound in the study of original and remake. However, ozus most direct remake of his own work is 1959s floating weeds, based on 1934s a story of floating weeds. Floating weeds, ukikusa is a 1959 japanese drama film directed by yasujiro ozu, starring ganjiro nakamura and machiko kyo. Equinox flower 1958 and good morning 1959, both photographed by his regular. With ganjiro nakamura, machiko kyo, haruko sugimura, ayako wakao. The film takes place during a hot summer in 1958 at a seaside town on the inland sea. Quiet cinematography floating weeds 1959 from the royal ocean film society on vimeo. Yasujiro ozus 1959 film floating weeds, which i discuss in this clip, is a drama about the romantic entanglements of members of an itinerant theatrical troupe with residents of a small. 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. Control of aquatic weeds aquatic weeds when present in a water body compete with fish seeds or fish for oxygen.
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