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24 November 1970 (USA)
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A troupe of travelling players arrive at a small seaport in the south of Japan. Komajuro Arashi, the aging master of the troupe...
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Who do you read? Good Roger, or Bad Roger?
(From Roger Ebert's Blog. 15 December 2009, 9:18 PM, PST)
400 Screens, 400 Blows - The Best of the Best
(From Cinematical. 27 September 2009, 7:02 AM, PDT)
(From Roger Ebert's Blog. 15 December 2009, 9:18 PM, PST)
400 Screens, 400 Blows - The Best of the Best
(From Cinematical. 27 September 2009, 7:02 AM, PDT)
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Pure elegance
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Ganjiro Nakamura | ... | Komajuro Arashi | |
| Machiko Kyô | ... | Sumiko | |
| Ayako Wakao | ... | Kayo | |
| Hiroshi Kawaguchi | ... | Kiyoshi Homma | |
| Haruko Sugimura | ... | Oyoshi | |
| Hitomi Nozoe | ... | Aiko | |
| Chishû Ryû | ... | Theatre Owner | |
| Kôji Mitsui | ... | Kichinosuke | |
| Haruo Tanaka | ... | Yatazo | |
| Yosuke Irie | ... | Sugiyama | |
| Hikaru Hoshi | ... | Kimura | |
| Mantarô Ushio | ... | Sentaro | |
| Kumeko Urabe | ... | Shige | |
| Toyo Takahashi | ... | Aiko no haha | |
| Mutsuko Sakura | ... | O-Katsu |
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119 min
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Color (Eastmancolor)
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1.37 : 1 more
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Finland:K-12 |
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Roger Ebert picks this film as one of his all-time 10 favourites.
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Continuity: Near the end, sandals disappear or move around: after Kiyoshi argues with his father, he runs upstairs, first slipping out of his sandals and leaving them at the bottom (center) of the stairs. Moments later, Kayo goes up to him. We see that she, too, removes her sandals at the bottom of the stairs. But Kiyoshi's sandals have now suddenly disappeared: we see only Kayo's sandals at the bottom of the stairs. Moments later, Kiyoshi comes back downstairs to go after his father. He goes to put on his sandals, which have now suddenly reappeared, but in a different location from where he took them off. A moment later, Kayo also comes down the stairs and puts on her sandals, which are approximately where she had removed them and placed them, moments earlier.
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Referenced in Les triplettes de Belleville (2003)
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"Floating Weeds" (Japanese, 1959): The first few things I notice about films by writer/director Ozu are: the incredibly consistent, artful composition used in his shots; his patience with the "ordinary"; and his intentional avoidance of "action" and blatant "drama". His films are meditative exercises on the daily truths we humans must face, which contain their own realistic challenges. Like Bergman and Allen, he too often uses the same actors, non-exotic locations, and stays within a philosophical area of interest that is obviously not market driven which earns them dedicated followers...even after death. Ozu's films are pure elegance.