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Song of Home

16 Sep 1925
45 min
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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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Yutaka Mimasu

American scholar

Sueko Ito

Naotaro's mother

Kentaro Kawamata

Junichi Okamoto

Shigeru Kido

Naotaro Takeda

Shirô Kato

Junichi's father

Hiromichi Kawata

Elementary school principal

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Shizue Matsumoto

Junichi's mother

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Ichirō Shibayama

School inspector

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Masujirô Takagi

Naotaro's father

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