The famous American film critic Roger Ebert commented on Ozu Yasujiro in his book "The Great Movie":
Everyone who loves movies will meet Ozu sooner or later. He is the quietest, gentlest, most caring and peaceful of all directors. But the emotions flowing in his films are both deep and strong, because they reflect the things we care about most: parents and children, marriage or singleness, illness and death, and mutual care.
Kiyoshi is a serious Ozu fan. The "Floating Grass" I would like to recommend to everyone today is probably the most dramatic work of Ozu Yasujiro. His movie is really too homely to almost no drama Dissolve conflicts, just like daily life.
floating grass, used in Japanese to mean parade artists. The hero of the
story is named Komajuro. He is the head of a second-rate musical troupe. His lover Sumiko is also an actress in the troupe.
The entire theater troupe inevitably declines, which may be the home of all traditional cultures since ancient times.
Komajuro leads the troupe to a small fishing village near the sea. There is a tavern in the small fishing village. The proprietress Afang is the old lover of Komajuro.
Afang also gave birth to a son named Aqing for Komajuro. Aqing has grown up and now works as a post office. He is trying to save money to go to university.
Komajuro has never dared to admit to Qing that he is Qing's father. Komajuro has always appeared in Qing's vision as an uncle. In fact, Komajuro secretly sends money to Fang's mother and son no matter where he is.
Komajuro is getting older and likes to get along with his son very much. But he often came to the tavern and attracted the attention of his lover Sumiko.
Sumiko discovered the truth, found the tavern madly jealous, and argued with Komajuro in front of Afang's mother and son. Komajuro took Sumiko away with shame.
The two arguing in the rain, this scene is beautiful. They stood under the eaves on both sides of a street, separated by a thick rain curtain, they walked around, quarreling through the rain.
Sumiko decides to retaliate against Komajuro and Afang. She spends money to hire another young and beautiful actress from the troupe to seduce Aqing. The last thing Komajuro wants to see is his son walking his own way. He hopes that he will become a talented student and be a decent person. That Sumiko wanted his son to mix with the female artist!
did not expect that Jiadai, who had collected money to seduce A Qing, fell in love with this handsome young man from the heart.
Komajuro beat Sumiko in a rage, and the two of them were at war. Komajuro decided to never forgive her. The attendance rate of
troupe is getting lower and lower, and the income is decreasing every day. At such a critical moment, an actor of the troupe stole Komajuro's wallet and took away all the valuable things in the troupe.
Komajuro had no choice but to disband the troupe, and everyone had the last meal together. At the dinner table, the elderly grandfather couldn't help crying, and the actors sang parting mourning. This scene reminded Qing Jia of the dissolution of the cultural troupe in "Fang Hua".
Komajuro has been wandering for many years, eager to rest. He came to Afang's tavern and said okay with Afang, and when Aqing came back, he would tell the truth, and the three lived together.
However, Qing came back with Kayo. In furious, Komajuro slapped Kayo several times.
A Fang hurriedly told the truth, but A Qing refused to admit his father.
In the end, Kayo stayed with Aqing, Komajuro went on the road again, and met Sumiko who had nowhere to go at the train station. The two of them paired up again and decided to try their luck in a well-known song and dance troupe.
Maybe everything is already doomed, those who should stay stay, those who should drift are still doomed to drift.
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