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An old potter despairs of having only two daughters and no son, hoping his apprentice will one day bring him an heir. The apprentice meets the eldest daughter but is disgusted by her. He decides to marry the younger daughter, who is in love with another man. Considered a lost film.
The Day Love Came Back
1923
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.
Song of Home
1925
Film about Ghost-Cat.
Saga kaibyōden
1937
No synopsis available yet.
Irohagana Yotsuya Kaidan
1937
No synopsis available yet.
Kaidan Kyôren onna shishô
1939
No synopsis available yet.
Kaidan Oocho
1938
Film credits
1920s · 2 titles
An old potter despairs of having only two daughters and no son, hoping his apprentice will one day bring him an heir. The apprentice meets the eldest daughter but is disgusted by her. He decides to marry the younger daughter, who is in love with another man. Considered a lost film.
The Day Love Came Back
1923
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.
Song of Home
1925
Behind the camera
Film about Ghost-Cat.
Saga kaibyōden
1937
No synopsis available yet.
Irohagana Yotsuya Kaidan
1937
No synopsis available yet.
Kaidan Kyôren onna shishô
1939
No synopsis available yet.
Kaidan Oocho
1938
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Arima Neko
1937