Song of Home

Overview
Cast & Crew
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The Plot

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.

Run Time

0h 50m

Original Title

ふるさとの歌

Genre

Drama

Country

Japan

Language

No Language

Official Release Date

September 16, 1925

Available Via

Theatrical Release

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