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Similar Japanese Movie

posted 12 years ago by RashomonLaStrada
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There is a Japanese movie about a struggling acting troupe that arrives in the village where the director's wife and son live (the son thinks this man is an uncle). His actress-girlfriend is jealous of him visiting his wife. The troupe is barely hanging on. The end of the movie was in a train station.

Does anyone know the name of this Japanese movie? I'm sure it would've been somewhere between 1955 and 1965. I wonder if one of these movies was inspired by the other? Or if both movies had similar source material?

"The good end happily, the bad unhappily, that is why it is called Fiction."

[–] RashomonLaStrada 12 years ago

The Japanese movie I was looking for turned out to be "Floating Weeds." Many differences, but some basic similarities of a traveling group of ragtag performers, an impresario with a younger girlfriend returning to the town where a wife/woman and son reside.

Curious, when I first saw FW I thought the storyline seemed more likely in an Italian movie!

"The good end happily, the bad unhappily, that is why it is called Fiction."

[–] lubin-freddy 12 years ago

I just saw this film for the first time, one of the few holes in my Bergman education. I haven't seen the Ozu film in decades, this will give me a reason to watch it again, whenever I get the chance. When I do, I'll get back to this thread.

I want to shake every limb in the Garden of Eden
and make every lover the love of my life

[–] pfr_77 8 years ago

Don't miss out on the earlier, equally masterful, silent version of the film, "A Story of Floating Weeds" from 1934.

I knew there had to be a reason why I was left thinking of Ozu and wanting to watch something of his after I finished Sawdust and Tinsel.