A story of floating weeds = Ukigusa monogatari

DVD 2004

In 1959, Yasujiro Ozu remade his 1934 silent film: A Story of Floating Weeds in color and sound with the cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa (Rashomon, Ugetsu). 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 reunities with his former lover and illegitimate son, a scenario that enrages his current mistress and results in...

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Entertainers Japan Drama

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Classic collection Classic collection (Chicago, Ill.) Criterion collection Criterion collection ; 232

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ISBN:

9780780027053
0780027051

Description:

2 videodiscs (86 min. ; 119 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in
plastic
4 3/4 in
digital optical mono Dolby Digital
digital optical surround Dolby Digital 5.0
videodisc
NTSC
video file DVD video region 1

Target Audience Note:

Canadian Home Video Rating System: Not rated

Other Title:

Ukigusa monogatari
Ukigusa
Ukigusa
浮草
Floating weeds

Notes:

Includes the original 1934, black and white, silent film "A Story of Floating Weeds" and the 1959 color remake "Floating Weeds."
Based on a story by Jēmusu Maki
Credits from English subtitles
Features: Disc 1: new score by Donald Sosin, audio commentary by Donald Richie ; Disc 2: original theatrical trailer, audio commentary by Roger Ebert
1st work: Photographed by Hideo Mohara ; optional new score by David Sosin. 2nd work: Photography by Kazuo Miyagawa ; editing, Toyo Suzuki ; music, Kojun Saito
1st work: Takeshi Sakamoto, Choko Iida, Hideo Mitsui, Rieko Yagumo, Yoshiko Tsubouchi, Tokkan-Kozo. 2nd work: Ganjiro Nakamura, Machiko Kyo, Ayako Wakao
DVD, NTSC, region 1, 1.33:1 aspect ratio; Dolby digital monophonic, Dolby digital 5.0
A story of floating weeds: silent film with Japanese intertitles, optional English subtitles. Floating weeds: Japanese dialogue with optional English subtitles

Contents:

Story of floating weeds / Janus Films ; a Shochiku film ; screenplay by Tadao Ikeda ; directed by Yasujiro Ozu. (86 min.)
Floating weeds / Janus Films ; produced by Masaichi Nagata ; screenplay by Yasujiro Ozu, Kogo Noda ; directed by Yasujiro Ozu. (119 minutes)

LCCN:

be2004100471

Control Number:

533721

UPC:

037429181928

Other Authors:

Criterion Collection (Firm)
Daiē, Kabushiki Kaisha
Iida, Chōko, 1897-1972, actor
Ikeda, Tadao, 1905-1964, screenwriter
Janus Films
Kyō, Machiko, 1924-2019, actor
Mitsui, Kōji, actor
Miyagawa, Kazuo, 1908-1999, director of photography
Nagata, Masaichi, 1906-1985, film producer
Nakamura, Ganjirō, 1902-1983, actor
Noda, Kōgo, 1893-1968
Ozu, Yasujirō, 1903-1963, screenwriter, film director
Sakamoto, Takeshi, 1899-1974, actor
Shigehara, Hideo, 1905-1967, director of photography, editor of moving image work
Shōchiku Kabushiki Kaisha
Sosin, Donald, composer (expression)
Tsubouchi, Yoshiko, 1915-1985, actor
Wakao, Ayako, 1933- actor
Yagumo, Rieko, actor
中村鴈治郎, 1902-1983,
京マチ子, 1924-2019,
大映株式会社
小津安二郎, 1903-1963, screenwriter, film director
松竹キネマ株式会社
野田高梧, 1893-1968

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