Song of Home
Original title: ふるさとの歌
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.
Top-billed cast
- MMichiko Tachibana
- SSueko Ito
- SShigeru Kido
- SShirô Kato
- MMineko Tsuji
- SShizue Matsumoto
- YYutaka Mimasu
- IIchirō Shibayama
- HHiromichi Kawata
- KKentaro Kawamata
Crew
- Director
- Kenji Mizoguchi
- Writer
- Ryunosuke Shimizu
- Production
- Nikkatsu Corporation
Frequently asked questions
What is Song of Home rated?
Song of Home has an audience rating of 5.2 out of 10 from 9 votes.
Who directed Song of Home?
Song of Home was directed by Kenji Mizoguchi.
When was Song of Home released?
Song of Home was released in 1925.
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