Floating Weeds (1959)iMDB Rating: 7.8
Date Released : 24 November 1970
Genre : Drama
Stars : Ganjirô Nakamura, Machiko Kyô, Haruko Sugimura, Ayako Wakao
Movie Quality : BRrip
Format : MKV
Size : 870 MB
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A troupe of travelling players arrive at a small seaport in the south of Japan. 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. The leading actress Sumiko is jealous and so, in order to humiliate the master, persuades the younger actress Kayo to seduce Kiyoshi.
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Ozu is a wonderful experience just to watch the musical formations. Each shot is composed in the most careful way so that the assembly has a geometric rhythm. Its soft and melodic, this visual overlay, painting in motion. No one does it better that I know.
There's a talk between two troubled lovers in the rain, then in opposing shelters, that is especially noteworthy, but its all so cinematically lovely...
The way he's put this together is very Japanese. Each shot length is nearly precisely the length of the one before. Each employs a stationary camera only, but the positioning of the camera only sometimes is where a human eye would be. As I've mentioned, The composition in terms of elements, space and color is perfect in each shot and follows in a deliberate, engineered pattern from the previous shots.
The narrative isn't integrated in the way Jurosawa would do — and be considered n0n- Japanese for. But the story does much of that for us.
Its a story about pretense and staging, with most of the actors playing characters who are actors and have trouble in being an actor.
You'll have to work to be engaged in the story. But its rather easy to just sit back and admire the loveliness. Ozu is always worth it for this. I don't know many of his films, but these is the most formal of those I know.
Ted's Evaluation -- 3 of 3: Worth watching.
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