Song of Home
1925 · 50 min
Drama
★ 5.4Mizoguchi’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.
Crew
- Director Kenji Mizoguchi
- Screenplay Ryunosuke Shimizu
- Director of Photography Tatsuyuki Yokota
Cast
- S
Shigeru Kido
Naotaro Takeda
- M
Masujirô Takagi
Naotaro's father
- S
Sueko Ito
Naotaro's mother
- M
Mineko Tsuji
Okinu
- K
Kentaro Kawamata
Junichi Okamoto
- S
Shiro Kato
Junichi's father
- S
Shizue Matsumoto
Junichi's mother
- M
Michiko Tachibana
Taro Maesaka
- H
Hiromichi Kawata
Elementary school principal
- I
Ichirō Shibayama
School inspector
Yutaka Mimasu
American scholar
- F
Fusako Hoshi
Crew
- Director — Kenji Mizoguchi
- Screenplay — Ryunosuke Shimizu
- Director of Photography — Tatsuyuki Yokota
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