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Floating Weeds

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Floating Weeds	comment	Floating Weeds is a 1959 film directed by Yasujiro Ozu.A third-rate kabuki acting troupe arrives via ferry at a seaside town in Japan. The troupe is not doing very well, being reduced to playing dinky villages, and its future is in question. Among its members are Komajuro, an older man who is the owner of the troupe and plays the male lead roles; Sumiko (Machiko Kyo), the lead actress and also Komajuro's lover, and Kayo, the younger actress in the troupe. Komajuro has a special reason for visiting this particular town. Living there is Oyoshi, an old girlfriend of Komajuro's, who has a son, Kiyoshi—also Komajuro's son, from their long-ago fling.Komajuro has not been back to the town to see his son for 12 years; Kiyoshi in the interim has grown from a small boy to a young man with a job at the post office. Oyoshi and Komajuro have kept their secret, with Kiyoshi believing his father long dead and the eccentric actor who's just shown up in town to be his uncle. Komajuro's extended absences while spending time with his old girlfriend and son are noticed by Sumiko. When Sumiko finds out Komajuro's secret, she is filled with jealousy, and she makes an ill-considered decision.This film is a remake of Ozu's 1934 film A Story of Floating Weeds.
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Floating Weeds / int_19f527df	type	Blowing Smoke Rings
Floating Weeds / int_19f527df	comment	Blowing Smoke Rings: One of the actors idly does this as he and his buddies commiserate about how the troupe looks likely to fold.
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Floating Weeds / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
Floating Weeds / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: Chishu Ryu, who appeared in almost every movie Ozu made, has a small part as the owner of the theater.
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Floating Weeds / int_1ba8eb64	type	Visual Pun
Floating Weeds / int_1ba8eb64	comment	Visual Pun: The first shot of the movie shows a lighthouse in the middle distance, while a sake bottle stands up in the foreground off to the right.
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Floating Weeds / int_1d7d1b93	type	Remake Cameo
Floating Weeds / int_1d7d1b93	comment	Remake Cameo: Kichi, the older actor who steals some of Komajuro's money and disappears, is played by Koji Mitsui. Mitsui played the Kiyoshi character (the son of the theater troupe leader) in A Story of Floating Weeds.
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Floating Weeds / int_35850a4f	type	The Fellowship Has Ended
Floating Weeds / int_35850a4f	comment	The Fellowship Has Ended: The troupe has one last melancholy evening together after it's become clear that there are no more bookings and they'll have to split up.
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Floating Weeds / int_3f13413a	type	Staggered Zoom
Floating Weeds / int_3f13413a	comment	Staggered Zoom: The film opens with a closeup of a lighthouse, then a staggered zoom out showing the beach of the town behind the lighthouse.
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Floating Weeds / int_44606d14	type	Becoming the Mask
Floating Weeds / int_44606d14	comment	Becoming the Mask: Sumiko bribes Kayo to seduce Kiyoshi in an effort to get back at Komajuro. Kayo falls in love with Kiyoshi for real.
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Floating Weeds / int_6752f60d	type	Signature Shot
Floating Weeds / int_6752f60d	comment	Signature Shot: The shot-reverse shot staging of conversations that Ozu used his whole career, in which characters having a conversation are framed in turn at the center of the shot, looking straight at the camera.
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Floating Weeds / int_714342fb	type	Erotic Eating
Floating Weeds / int_714342fb	comment	Erotic Eating: The two village hookers ostentatiously lick away at popsicles.
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Floating Weeds / int_7b8b3def	type	Celebrity Paradox
Floating Weeds / int_7b8b3def	comment	Celebrity Paradox: One of the actors screws with a villager by claiming to be Toshiro Mifune, which raises the question of why Sumiko looks so much like Mifune's co-star in Rashomon. Additionally, that actor is played by Koji Mitsui, who starred with Mifune in The Lower Depths, The Hidden Fortress, The Bad Sleep Well, Red Beard and many others.
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Floating Weeds / int_823c6e3e	type	LargeHam
Floating Weeds / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: In-Universe with all the actors in the troupe, as seen in the performances onstage. Kiyoshi calls out the man he thinks is his uncle about that, saying "You really mugged it up." Komajuro gets defensive, saying his performance is "old-fashioned."
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Floating Weeds / int_94e4c8ab	type	Betty and Veronica
Floating Weeds / int_94e4c8ab	comment	Betty and Veronica: Komajuro has Oyoshi, who is demure and feminine in a Yamato Nadeshiko kind of way, and Sumiko, a chain-smoking actress who is much more assertive.
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Floating Weeds / int_99ff79ee	type	Heat Wave
Floating Weeds / int_99ff79ee	comment	Heat Wave: Throughout, characters talk about how hot it is, and are shown lying around listlessly or fanning themselves in the heat. Likely meant to symbolize the passions and secrets that are hidden inside an outwardly sleepy village.
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Floating Weeds / int_9c379ef0	type	Cross-Cast Role
Floating Weeds / int_9c379ef0	comment	Cross-Cast Role: In-Universe, Sumiko plays a man—legendary bandit Chuji Kunisada—in one of the troupe's shows.
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Floating Weeds / int_aef5c283	type	Off-into-the-Distance Ending
Floating Weeds / int_aef5c283	comment	Off-into-the-Distance Ending: Replicating a shot from the 1934 film. The last shot shows Komajuro and Sumiko's train chugging off into the distance, as they go off to Kuwana in hopes of finding more acting work.
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Floating Weeds / int_b869b5b1	type	Color Motif
Floating Weeds / int_b869b5b1	comment	Color Motif: Lots of red—red curtains, red flowers, Sumiko's red umbrella, the red-painted bottom of a ship when Kiyoshi and Kayo are having a meating at the beach, even the same red teapot seen in Equinox Flower.
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Floating Weeds / int_c132c0c5	type	I Have No Son!
Floating Weeds / int_c132c0c5	comment	I Have No Son: I Have No Father. Oyoshi reveals the truth at the worst possible moment, after Komajuro has struck Kayo and Kiyoshi has knocked him to the ground. An enraged Kiyoshi says he's never had a father and as far as he's concerned he still doesn't.
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Floating Weeds / int_c2393191	type	Show Within a Show
Floating Weeds / int_c2393191	comment	Show Within a Show: We see a few scenes in which the troupe plays Kabuki theater.
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Floating Weeds / int_d63358ae	type	Give Him a Normal Life
Floating Weeds / int_d63358ae	comment	Give Him a Normal Life: The excuse given for keeping Kiyoshi in the dark, namely, that having an itinerant actor for a father would be too embarrassing.
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Floating Weeds / int_e13156e1	type	Mama Bear
Floating Weeds / int_e13156e1	comment	Mama Bear: A subplot has Kiyosha, one of the older actors, take great interest in Aiko, the barber's very good-looking daughter. This culminates in Kiyosha trying to kiss her, which leads to Aiko running off, which leads to her large and intimidating mother coming out with a straight razor and insisting on giving Kiyosha a shave. Later he's shown sheepishly admitting to his buddies that he got a cut on his face at the barbershop.
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Floating Weeds / int_e3cee2e7	type	Empathic Environment
Floating Weeds / int_e3cee2e7	comment	Empathic Environment: Most of the movie takes place during a Heat Wave, but the scene where Sumiko marches into Oyoshi's house and confronts her and Komajuro takes place during a pouring rainstorm. Immediately afterwards Sumiko and Komajuro vent their anger at each other from opposite sides of the street as a monsoon pours between them.
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Floating Weeds / int_f19e8a55	type	Bad "Bad Acting"
Floating Weeds / int_f19e8a55	comment	Bad "Bad Acting": All of the actors, most notably Machiko Kyo as Sumiko hamming it up relentlessly onstage.
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Floating Weeds / int_f42f96fa	type	Would Hit a Girl
Floating Weeds / int_f42f96fa	comment	Would Hit a Girl: Komajuro does not react at all well to finding out that Kayo is dating his son. He smacks her around some, and when Kayo reveals that Sumiko put her up to it, he confronts Sumiko and smacks her around as well.
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Floating Weeds / int_f8ecb0a1	type	Glorified Sperm Donor
Floating Weeds / int_f8ecb0a1	comment	Glorified Sperm Donor: Despite not only not telling Kiyoshi the truth, but not even visiting for twelve years, Komajuro tries to get bossy and controlling when he finds out his son is dating an actress. It doesn't go well.
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