A story of floating weeds 1934 the criterion collection. Shortly thereafter, kihachi goes to visit a local restaurant owner named otsune choko iida, with whom he has a son, shinkichi koji mitsui, credited as hideo mitsui. An alternate audio track contains a commentary by roger ebert. Floating weeds is widely acclaimed by film critics. Floating weeds a late work from japanese auteur yasujiro ozu, and a master class in his particular sense of composition.
The film was a remake of his 1934 silent film the story of floating weeds. Weeds streaming vf gratuit, complet vf streaming en francais, weeds. 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 story of floating weeds floating weeds criterion. 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. 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. See more ideas about film, yasujiro ozu and movies. A thirdrate kabuki acting troupe arrives via ferry at a seaside town in japan. Less than a dozen of his films are available in the west on video and only floating weeds is also on laserdisc. Aefnefl eagles 121914 long visit from young juvenile eagle. See more ideas about yasujiro ozu, japanese film and cinema. The making of an animated short film wednesday, november 8th, 2017, 7. Filme online 2020 gratis subtitrate in limba romana.
Ozu occasionally repeated himself in the stricter sense, as well. 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. Floating weeds boasts the visual beauty and deep tenderness of director yasujiro. Weeds has been a passion project of ours for the past year and a half. 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. Film 4 floating weeds 1959 is like a familiar piece of music that i can. Animal show 1994 dvd animal treasure island 1971 dvd animals are beautiful people 1974 dvd animated soviet propaganda 2000 dvd animation express 2010 dvd animation show. In each, the director captures the joy and sadness in everyday life.
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. 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. A kabuki actors mistress hatches a jealous plot to bring down her lovers son. A story of floating weeds reveals ozu in the midst of developing his mode of expression. Its story of triumph in the face of overwhelming situational borders is at the heart of the film s themes on empathy and immigration. A former special operations vietnam vet works as a chicago cop, and uncovers. But the directors genius adroitly avoids any hint of mawkishness by grounding the film in the most mundane details of daily life as he fashions one of the most powerfully moving works of his early career. 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.
A film by yasujiro ozu, japan, 1934, 86 starring takeshi sakamoto, choko lida, koij hideo mitsui with live accompaniment by the orchestra of the istituto. 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. It also shares the directors amazingly serene yet appealing visual style, created through the use of the simplest means possible. 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. Directed by yasujiro ozu 1934 japan in 1959, yasujiro ozu remade his 1934 silent classic a story of floating weeds in color with the celebrated cinematographer kazuo miyagawa rashomon, ugetsu. Much had changed for ozu in the intervening 25 years. In 1959, yasujiro ozu remade his 1934 silent classic a story of floating weeds in color with the celebrated cinematographer kazuo miyagawa rashomon, ugetsu. Weeds streaming vf gratuit, complet vf streaming en francais. An alternate audio track contains a commentary by japanese film historian donald richie. Google has this listed as one of the ten greatest films, so i bought it. A story of floating weeds reveals ozu in the midst of. The story is average and the cinematography isnt as cathartic as most would.
Oct 08, 2015 a story of floating weeds opens with a traveling kabuki troupe, led by kihachi ichikawa takeshi sakamoto, arriving in a town that they havent visited in four years. Ozus remake of his 1934 silent classic a story of floating weeds, about an elderly actor who returns with his company to a small town where he is reunited with. Director kevin hudson and producer brad simonsen assembled an international team who volunteered their time to make this project. See more ideas about movie posters, movies and japanese film. Ozus silent film, inspired by the barker, a much inferior american film on a similar theme, might seem to inevitably be swamped by sentimentality, given the plot outline. 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. My first impression is, for 1959 movies the cinematography are okay. A quartercentury later, he remade the film as floating weeds, retaining the same story and characters, switching the setting to a seaside town, and demonstrating a more casual acceptance of human foibles that makes the 1959 version ozus first film in color relatively calm and compassionate when contrasted with the more turbulent tone of the. Eagles waiting in the weeds long road out of eden video.
Floating weeds is a 1959 japanese drama film directed by yasujiro ozu, starring ganjiro nakamura and machiko kyo. With steven seagal, pam grier, henry silva, ron dean. Stories of floating weeds a story of floating weeds. Floating weeds is a remake of earlier silent black and white ozus film the story of floating weeds. Nov, 2012 floating weeds 1959 is like a familiar piece of music that i can turn to for reassurance and consolation. If you like weeds you are looking for humorous, dark humor and cynical movies or tv shows about with dysfunctional family, marijuana, drug dealing, drug dealer, stoners, family life and single mother themes of comedy, crime and drama genre shot in usa. It is so atmosphericso evocative of a quiet fishing village during a hot and muggy. Like the majority of director yasujiro ozus work, floating weeds is concerned with family relationships and interactions between different generations. It is an interesting drama, one of whose themes is forgiveness. 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. Telling the same story from opposite ends of ozus career, the two movies illustrate how he refined his style through the years. The bollinger b1 has a long waiting list and new offroad video. Together, the films offer a unique glimpse into the evolution of one of cinemas greatest directors.
Floating weeds reveals his distinct style at its pinnacle. Floating weeds masters of cinema original theatrical trailer. 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. May 04, 2016 quiet cinematography floating weeds 1959 from the royal ocean film society on vimeo. The story is average and the cinematography isnt as cathartic as most would delude. Floating weeds masters of cinema original theatrical.
Floating weeds is a 1959 film directed by yasujiro ozu. This would become a trademark of yasujiro ozu films. Floating weeds was released on region 1 dvd by the criterion collection on april 20, 2004, as a twodisc set with a story of floating weeds. With ganjiro nakamura, machiko kyo, haruko sugimura, ayako wakao. 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 in color. 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. Weeds 1987 after his many suicide attempts are thwarted, san quentin lifer lee umstetter nick nolte finds his personal redemption when a traveling theater group stages a performance at the prison. With takeshi sakamoto, choko iida, koji mitsui, emiko yagumo. Weeds is the story of a dandelion struggling to journey from dry. The troupe is not doing very well, being reduced to playing dinky villages, and its future is in question.
The film opens on a lazy, stagnant river as the troupe lays spread about on a boat deck drifting downstream. Ozus career was so long that in one case, he made the same movie twice. Theres never a moment when theres much doubt about the outcome, but the movie gets there by a series of small delights and. What makes me disappointed is the love story between kayo and kiyoshi just too short, the ending of this two lovebirds for me like hanging, whereas i really enjoyed their love story. The other dvd is floating weeds color, sound, a literal remake of the movie, which i watched second. The film opens on a lazy, stagnant river as the troupe lays spread about on a boat deck.