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Floating Weeds
Why this pick
Ozu revisits the travelling-theatre setting with richer colour and an equally delicate focus on concealed parenthood, professional pride, and the melancholy of lives in transit.
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MOVIE1934 1h 26m JPN
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
The film starts with a travelling kabuki troupe arriving by train at a provincial seaside town. Kihachi Ichikawa (Takeshi Sakamoto), the head of the troupe, is a very popular actor. He takes time off to visit a former mistress Otsune (Chouko Iida), with whom he had a son years before. His son, now a student, does not know that Kihachi is his father, thinking him an uncle. Kihachi and his son, Shinkichi, spend a fruitful afternoon fishing for dace in a nearby river.
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