A commission from the Ministry of Education for an educational film about rural youth, Mizoguchi’s earliest extant feature observes the tensions that erupt among a group of village children when two privileged youth return from Tokyo where they have been studying in a private school.
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi. AKA The Song of Home
Stars: Kentaro Kawamata, Sueko Ito, Shirô Kato, Shizue Matsumoto, Shigeru Kido, Masujirô Takagi, Mineko Tsuji, Michiko Tachibana, Hiromichi Kawata, Yutaka Mimasu, Ichirô Shibayama.
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