From David Williams entry on Mizoguchi in World Film Directors:
The first of his pictures still extant, Furusato no uta (The Song of Home), is a studio assignment remote from Mizoguchi’s personal concerns, lauding traditional rural values over those of the wicked city, although it contains some montage experiments in the manner of Minoru Murata. The script by Ryunosuke Shimizu won a Ministry of Education award.Read More »
Shirô Kato
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Kenji Mizoguchi – Furusato no uta aka The Song of Home (1925)
1921-1930DramaJapanKenji MizoguchiSilent