Song of Home
1925 · 50 MIN · IMDB 5.8 · 162 VOTES · DIR. Kenji Mizoguchi
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.
Dialogue Timeline — 101 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:10 The Song of Home
00:02:20 An old school mate of Junichi, Taro Maesaka. He is a student of a commercial high school.
00:05:03 Sakuda, that brilliant boy at our primary school?
00:08:23 You are grown-up.
00:11:52 Naotaro's mother, Okiku, who has a kind heart.
00:14:18 My brother could be at the top position if he went to high school.
00:15:55 No, you cannot succeed in anything if you do not concentrate on one thing.
00:18:01 Please enjoy yourself, Misako. Give my best regards to your brother.
00:21:14 It will be the attended by the guys coming back from Tokyo. I don't want to go to such meeting.
00:25:25 with the country life organize a club in the city style.
00:26:04 the city fever of young people in the village.
00:30:18 "Mother, thank you for everything. But I am fed up with the country life.
00:31:36 Such a reckless action must cause misbehavior. OK, we'll get her back.
00:34:05 You may go.
00:37:05 Okinu, why did you come here?
00:38:16 No, our teacher taught us that a man's character is more precious than learning.
00:39:38 Please love our land. And please be proud of being a farmer.
00:42:05 He saved the life of my child.
00:46:30 What is our land coming to? What is Japan coming to?
00:47:46 I pay my respects to your heart.
00:50:06 By doing so, everyting in the nation can be nurtured.