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Floating Weeds (浮草, Ukikusa) is a 1959 film directed by Yasujiro Ozu and shot in colour by Kazuo Miyagawa, one of Japan's most highly regarded cinematographers. It is a remake of Ozu's own black-and-white silent film A Story of Floating Weeds
(1934).

Plot summary

A group of travelling kabuki actors is stranded in a seaside town when their tour collapses for lack of finances. The leading actress (Machiko Kyô) is angered to learn that her lover, the troupe's lead actor (Ganjiro Nakamura), has a secret mistress and grown-up son in the town, and decides to torment them by bribing another actress from the troupe to seduce the son.

Cast

Ganjiro Nakamura - Komajuro (troupe leader)
Machiko Kyô - Sumiko (his mistress)
Hiroshi Kawaguchi - Kiyoshi (his son)
Haruko Sugimura - Oyoshi (Kiyoshi's mother)
Ayako Wakao - Kayo (younger actress)
Hitomi Nozoe - Aiko
Chishu Ryu
- Theatre owner
Hideo Mitsui - Kichinosuke
Haruko Tanaka - Yatazo
Yosuke Irie - Sugiyama
Hikaru Hoshi - Kimura
Mantarô Ushio - Sentaro
Kumeko Urabe - Shige
Toyoko Takahashi - Aiko no haha
Mutsuko Sakura - O-Katsu

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