IMDB link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0025929/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
IMDB rating: 7,8
Director: Yasujiro Ozu
Main Cast: Takeshi Sakamoto, Choko Iida, Koji Mitsui, Rieko Yagumo
"Ozu's silent film, inspired by the now-obscure 1928 carnival-troupe drama The Barker, a much inferior American film on a similar theme, might seem to inevitably be swamped by sentimentality, given the plot outline. But the director's genius adroitly avoids any hint of mawkishness by grounding the film in the most mundane details of daily life as he fashions one of the most powerfully moving works of his early career. The pleasure taken by the actor in a moment of peace for a cigarette, water dropping through the roof of the rickety theater into bowls, the horny supporting actors of the troupe always on the make -- these and dozens of other carefully observed fragments of the ebb and flow of the quotidian, shot in the director's characteristically understated visual style, emphasize his belief that everything his eye falls upon has value and meaning.
Ozu was justifiably proud of this meticulous character study, in which his celebrated low-angle style began to assert itself. A quarter-century later, he remade the film as Floating Weeds, retaining the same story and characters, switching the setting to a seaside town." - http://www.allmovie.com/movie/ukigusa-monogatari-v111851/
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