Song of Home
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.
About Song of Home (1925)
Released in 1925, Song of Home is a drama film from Nikkatsu Corporation (Japan). It was directed by Kenji Mizoguchi and written by Ryunosuke Shimizu. The cast is led by Shigeru Kido, Masujirô Takagi, Sueko Ito, Mineko Tsuji and Kentaro Kawamata. With a runtime of 50m, the film averages 5.4/10 across 11 TMDB ratings.
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