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Song of Home

1925 0h 50m · Drama · ★ 5.5

Song of Home

Mizoguchi’s 30th film is the earliest surviving example of his work, and his only film of the 1920s to survive complete. Song of Home finds the director already concerning himself with the collision of traditional and modern values. The film is structured around the contrast of two country-bred boys: a coach driver who has never left his home, and a student who returns from Tokyo with city-slicker affectations and Western jazz records. Produced by the Ministry of Education, the film has a simplistic lesson-plan at its heart, but what lingers in the mind after viewing are its more ineffable qualities: The dulcet, lyric, evocation of a disappeared rural past.

Director Kenji Mizoguchi

Screenplay Ryunosuke Shimizu

Top Billed Cast

Shigeru Kido

Naotaro Takeda

Masujirô Takagi

Naotaro's father

Sueko Ito

Naotaro's mother

Mineko Tsuji

Okinu

Kentaro Kawamata

Junichi Okamoto

Shiro Kato

Junichi's father

Shizue Matsumoto

Junichi's mother

Michiko Tachibana

Taro Maesaka

Hiromichi Kawata

Elementary school principal

Ichirō Shibayama

School inspector

Yutaka Mimasu

Yutaka Mimasu

American scholar

Fusako Hoshi

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Status Released

Original Language ja

Budget $0

Revenue $0

Keywords

rural area ancient world