Song of Home (1925)

ALL 09/16/1925 (ja) Drama 50 Min
  • Release
    09/16/1925
  • Production
    Nikkatsu Corporation
  • Rotten tomato
    52%
  • Original title
    ふるさとの歌
  • Original language
    ja
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

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.

  1. Kenji Mizoguchi

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer



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  1. Shigeru Kido

    Naotaro Takeda

  2. Masujirô Takagi

    Naotaro's father

  3. Sueko Ito

    Naotaro's mother

  4. Mineko Tsuji

    Okinu

  5. Kentaro Kawamata

    Junichi Okamoto

  6. Shirô Kato

    Junichi's father

  7. Shizue Matsumoto

    Junichi's mother

  8. Michiko Tachibana

    Taro Maesaka

  9. Hiromichi Kawata

    Elementary school principal

  10. Ichirō Shibayama

    School inspector

  11. Yutaka Mimasu

    American scholar

  12. Fusako Hoshi

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Casts : 12 , Crews : 3

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Song of Home (1925) 50 Min

ALL 09/16/1925 (ja)
Drama
  • Release 09/16/1925
  • Production
    Nikkatsu Corporation
  • Original title ふるさとの歌
  • ja
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

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.

  1. Kenji Mizoguchi

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer