A Story of Floating Weeds

Infobox Film
name = A Story of Floating Weeds


caption =
director = Yasujiro Ozu
producer = Shochiku
writer = Tadao Ikeda
Yasujiro Ozu
starring = Takeshi Sakamoto
Chouko Iida
Koji Mitsui
Yoshiko Tsubouchi
music =
cinematography = Hideo Shigehara
editing = Hideo Shigehara
distributor = Shochiku
released = 1934
runtime = 118 min.
country = flagicon|Japan Japan
language = Silent film
Japanese intertitles
budget =
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followed_by =
amg_id = 1:111851
imdb_id = 0025929

nihongo|"A Story of Floating Weeds"|浮草物語|Ukikusa monogatari is a 1934 silent film directed by Yasujiro Ozu which he later remade as "Floating Weeds" in 1959.

The film includes the first appearance of what became one of the director's trademarks: a title sequence in which the credits appear against a sackcloth backdrop. Not only does this fit the story's pastoral setting, but since the credit sequences of Ozu's previous films had featured cartoony illustrations, the choice of humble sackcloth indicates the emergence of his mature film-making style. It earned Ozu the Kinema Junpô Critics' Prize for Best Japanese Film, his third in as many years.

DVD release

"A Story of Floating Weeds" was released on Region 1 DVD by The Criterion Collection on April 20, 2004 as a two-disc set with "Floating Weeds". [http://www.criterion.com/asp/release.asp?id=232] An alternate audio track contains a commentary by Japanese film historian Donald Richie; another features a new score by composer Donald Sosin.

External links

*imdb title|id=0025929|title=A Story of Floating Weeds
* [http://www.criterion.com/asp/release.asp?id=232&eid=348&section=essay Criterion Collection essay by Donald Richie]
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