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Song of Home (1925)

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.
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Kenji Mizoguchi profile
Kenji Mizoguchi

Director

Ryunosuke Shimizu profile
Ryunosuke Shimizu

Screenplay

Cast

Shigeru Kido profile
Shigeru Kido

Naotaro Takeda

Masujirô Takagi profile
Masujirô Takagi

Naotaro's father

Sueko Ito profile
Sueko Ito

Naotaro's mother

Mineko Tsuji profile
Mineko Tsuji

Okinu

Kentaro Kawamata profile
Kentaro Kawamata

Junichi Okamoto

Shirô Kato profile
Shirô Kato

Junichi's father

Shizue Matsumoto profile
Shizue Matsumoto

Junichi's mother

Michiko Tachibana profile
Michiko Tachibana

Taro Maesaka

Hiromichi Kawata profile
Hiromichi Kawata

Elementary school principal

Ichirō Shibayama profile
Ichirō Shibayama

School inspector

Yutaka Mimasu profile
Yutaka Mimasu

American scholar

Fusako Hoshi profile
Fusako Hoshi

Shigeru Kido profile
Shigeru Kido

Naotaro Takeda

Masujirô Takagi profile
Masujirô Takagi

Naotaro's father

Sueko Ito profile
Sueko Ito

Naotaro's mother

Mineko Tsuji profile
Mineko Tsuji

Okinu

Kentaro Kawamata profile
Kentaro Kawamata

Junichi Okamoto

Shirô Kato profile
Shirô Kato

Junichi's father

Shizue Matsumoto profile
Shizue Matsumoto

Junichi's mother

Michiko Tachibana profile
Michiko Tachibana

Taro Maesaka

Hiromichi Kawata profile
Hiromichi Kawata

Elementary school principal

Ichirō Shibayama profile
Ichirō Shibayama

School inspector

Yutaka Mimasu profile
Yutaka Mimasu

American scholar

Fusako Hoshi profile
Fusako Hoshi

Extra

Release Date

September 16, 1925

Original Language

No Language

Budget

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Production Company

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