Song of Home
Song of Home
1925, Japanese. Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi.
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.
- Runtime
- 0h 50m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Japanese
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Cast & crew
- Kenji MizoguchiDirector
- Shigeru KidoNaotaro Takeda
- Masujirô TakagiNaotaro's father
- Sueko ItoNaotaro's mother
- Mineko TsujiOkinu
- Kentaro KawamataJunichi Okamoto
- Shiro KatoJunichi's father
- Shizue MatsumotoJunichi's mother
- Michiko TachibanaTaro Maesaka
- Hiromichi KawataElementary school principal
- Ichirō ShibayamaSchool inspector
- Yutaka MimasuAmerican scholar
- Fusako HoshiCast
Details
- Released
- 16 September 1925
- Original title
- ふるさとの歌
- Country
- Japan
- Written by
- Ryunosuke Shimizu
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Song of Home runs 50 minutes (0h 50m).
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Song of Home isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 16 September 1925. (Checked 13 November 2026.)
What movies are like Song of Home?
If you liked Song of Home, try Only Yesterday, Hardball, The River.
Who directed Song of Home?
Song of Home (1925) was directed by Kenji Mizoguchi and stars Shigeru Kido, Masujirô Takagi, Sueko Ito.