A Story of Floating Weeds (1934)
浮草物語
An aging actor returns to a small town with his troupe and reunites with his former lover and illegitimate son, a scenario that enrages his current mistress and results in heartbreak for all.
- Date of release
- 1934-11-23
- TMDB
- 7.2 / 10 (66)
- Runtime
- 1h 26m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Yasujirō Ozu
Casting
- Takeshi Sakamoto — Kihachi
- Chōko Iida — Otsune
- Kōji Mitsui — Shinkichi
- Emiko Yagumo — Otaka
- Yoshiko Tsubouchi — Otoki
- Tomio Aoki — Tomio
- Reikō Tani — Tomio's Father
- Seiji Nishimura — Kichi
- Nagamasa Yamada — Mā kō
- Kiyoshi Aono — Sword trainer
- Mitsuru Wakamiya — Station attendant
- Mariko Aoyama — Barber's landlady
Interesting facts
A Story of Floating Weeds is a 1934 silent film directed by Yasujirō Ozu; he remade it — in sound and color — in 1959, shortening the title to Floating Weeds. The film won the Kinema Junpo Award for Best Film of the Year in 1934.
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