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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 (Creator/MachikoKyo), 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.
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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 (Creator/MachikoKyo), 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 Kiyoshi -- also Komajuro's son, from their long-ago fling.
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This film is a remake of Ozu's 1934 film ''Film/AStoryOfFloatingWeeds''.
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This film is [[SelfRemake a remake of Ozu's 1934 film film]] ''Film/AStoryOfFloatingWeeds''.
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* ColorMotif: 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 ''Film/EquinoxFlower''.
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* ColorMotif: 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 meeting at the beach, even the same red teapot seen in ''Film/EquinoxFlower''.
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* WouldHitAGirl: 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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* WouldHitAGirl: 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.well.
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* CelebrityParadox: One of the actors screws with a villager by claiming to be Creator/ToshiroMifune, which raises the question of why Sumiko looks so much like Mifune's co-star in ''Film/{{Rashomon}}''.
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* CelebrityParadox: One of the actors screws with a villager by claiming to be Creator/ToshiroMifune, which raises the question of why Sumiko looks so much like Mifune's co-star in ''Film/{{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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* EroticEating: The two village hookers ostentatiously lick away at popsicles.
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* VisualPun: 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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* CelebrityParadox: One of the actors screws with a villager by claiming to be Creator/ToshiroMifune, which raises the question of why Sumiko looks so much like Mifune's co-star in ''Film/{{Rashomon}}''.
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A 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 (Creator/MachikoKyo), 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.
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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 (Creator/MachikoKyo), 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.
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* OffIntoTheDistanceEnding: Replicating a shot from the 1934 film. The last shot shows Komajuro and Sumiko's film chugging off into the distance, as they go off to Kuwana in hopes of finding more acting work.
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* OffIntoTheDistanceEnding: Replicating a shot from the 1934 film. The last shot shows Komajuro and Sumiko's film train chugging off into the distance, as they go off to Kuwana in hopes of finding more acting work.
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* MamaBear: A subplot has one of the older actors take great interest in Aiko, the barber's very good-looking daughter. This culminates in the actor 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 the actor 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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* MamaBear: A subplot has Kiyosha, one of the older actors actors, take great interest in Aiko, the barber's very good-looking daughter. This culminates in the actor 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 the actor 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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* BecomingTheMask: Sumiko bribes Kayo to seduce Kiyoshi in an effort to get back at Komajuro. Kayo falls in love with Kiyoshi for real.
* BettyAndVeronica: Komajuro has Oyoshi, who is demure and feminine in a YamatoNadeshiko kind of way, and Sumiko, a chain-smoking actress who is much more assertive.
* BettyAndVeronica: Komajuro has Oyoshi, who is demure and feminine in a YamatoNadeshiko kind of way, and Sumiko, a chain-smoking actress who is much more assertive.
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* GiveHimANormalLife: 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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* SignatureShot: 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'' is a 1959 film directed by Creator/YasujiroOzu.
A 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 (Creator/MachikoKyo), 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 ''Film/AStoryOfFloatingWeeds''.
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!!Tropes:
* BadBadActing: All of the actors, most notably Machiko Kyo as Sumiko hamming it up relentlessly onstage.
* BlowingSmokeRings: One of the actors idly does this as he and his buddies commiserate about how the troupe looks likely to fold.
* TheCameo: Chishu Ryu, who appeared in almost every movie Ozu made, has a small part as the owner of the theater.
* ColorMotif: 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 ''Film/EquinoxFlower''.
* CrossCastRole: InUniverse, Sumiko plays a man--legendary bandit Chuji Kunisada--in one of the troupe's shows.
* EmpathicEnvironment: Most of the movie takes place during a HeatWave, 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.
* TheFellowshipHasEnded: 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.
* GlorifiedSpermDonor: 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.
* HeatWave: 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.
* IHaveNoSon: 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.
* LargeHam: InUniverse 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."
* MamaBear: A subplot has one of the older actors take great interest in Aiko, the barber's very good-looking daughter. This culminates in the actor 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 the actor a shave. Later he's shown sheepishly admitting to his buddies that he got a cut on his face at the barbershop.
* OffIntoTheDistanceEnding: Replicating a shot from the 1934 film. The last shot shows Komajuro and Sumiko's film chugging off into the distance, as they go off to Kuwana in hopes of finding more acting work.
* RemakeCameo: 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''.
* ShowWithinAShow: We see a few scenes in which the troupe plays Kabuki theater.
* StaggeredZoom: The film opens with a closeup of a lighthouse, then a staggered zoom out showing the beach of the town behind the lighthouse.
* WouldHitAGirl: 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.
A 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 (Creator/MachikoKyo), 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 ''Film/AStoryOfFloatingWeeds''.
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!!Tropes:
* BadBadActing: All of the actors, most notably Machiko Kyo as Sumiko hamming it up relentlessly onstage.
* BlowingSmokeRings: One of the actors idly does this as he and his buddies commiserate about how the troupe looks likely to fold.
* TheCameo: Chishu Ryu, who appeared in almost every movie Ozu made, has a small part as the owner of the theater.
* ColorMotif: 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 ''Film/EquinoxFlower''.
* CrossCastRole: InUniverse, Sumiko plays a man--legendary bandit Chuji Kunisada--in one of the troupe's shows.
* EmpathicEnvironment: Most of the movie takes place during a HeatWave, 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.
* TheFellowshipHasEnded: 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.
* GlorifiedSpermDonor: 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.
* HeatWave: 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.
* IHaveNoSon: 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.
* LargeHam: InUniverse 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."
* MamaBear: A subplot has one of the older actors take great interest in Aiko, the barber's very good-looking daughter. This culminates in the actor 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 the actor a shave. Later he's shown sheepishly admitting to his buddies that he got a cut on his face at the barbershop.
* OffIntoTheDistanceEnding: Replicating a shot from the 1934 film. The last shot shows Komajuro and Sumiko's film chugging off into the distance, as they go off to Kuwana in hopes of finding more acting work.
* RemakeCameo: 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''.
* ShowWithinAShow: We see a few scenes in which the troupe plays Kabuki theater.
* StaggeredZoom: The film opens with a closeup of a lighthouse, then a staggered zoom out showing the beach of the town behind the lighthouse.
* WouldHitAGirl: 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.
