Floating Weeds

- Saturday, June 1, 16:00 Deutsches Filmmuseum
(Tickets only available at the Deutsches Filmmuseum) - 浮草
Ukikusa - Japan 1959, 35mm, 119 min, Japanese with English subtitles
- Director: Yasujiro OZU
- Script: Kogo NODA, Yasujiro OZU
- Production: Daiei
- Camera: Kazuo MIYAGAWA
- World sales: Kadokawa
- Film copy: Japan Foundation
- Cast: Ganjiro NAKAMURA, Machiko KYO, Hiroshi KAWAGUCHI, Ayako WAKAO, Haruko SUGIMURA
- With an introduction by Jonathan Hall
A traveling theater troupe arrives in a small seaside town where its leader Komajuro reunites with his former lover Oyoshi and their now grown-up son. As Komajuro’s colleague and current mistress Sumiko learns about this, she gets jealous and bribes young actress Kayo (Ayako WAKAO) to seduce the son. Yasujiro OZU arranges this story into a series of calmly observed everyday scenes, presented in meticulously composed shots.