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.
Ugetsu
Fantasy, Drama, Mystery
8.0
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Comedy, Drama
8.0
Joker
Crime, Thriller, Drama
8.1
Deadpool 2
Action, Comedy, Adventure
7.5
Drive
Drama, Thriller, Crime
7.6
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
7.5
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Drama, Comedy
7.5
A Beautiful Mind
Drama, Romance
7.9
Prometheus
Science Fiction, Adventure, Mystery
6.6
Frozen
Animation, Family, Adventure, Fantasy
7.2
Psycho
Horror, Thriller, Mystery
8.4
Baby Driver
Action, Crime
7.4
Blade Runner
Science Fiction, Drama, Thriller
7.9
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Drama, War, History
7.8
Gladiator
Action, Drama, Adventure
8.2
Rush
Drama, Action
7.7
Pulp Fiction
Thriller, Crime, Comedy
8.5
Catch Me If You Can
Drama, Crime
8.0
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Adventure, Family, Fantasy
7.1
Forrest Gump
Comedy, Drama, Romance
8.5
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Drama, Romance
7.8
Gladiator
Action, Drama, Adventure
8.2
My Summer in Provence
Comedy, Drama
6.3
Winter Sleep
Drama
7.5
Signs
Drama, Thriller, Science Fiction, Mystery
6.7
The Man in the Iron Mask
Adventure, Action, Drama
6.6
My Life as a Dog
Drama, Comedy
7.2
Our Twisted Hero
Drama
6.7
Brother of Sleep
Drama
6.7
Spartacus
History, War, Drama, Adventure
7.5
Little Forest
Drama
7.6
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
Drama, Mystery, Horror
7.4
Alexander
War, History, Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance
6.0
Amarcord
Comedy, Drama
7.9
The Village
Drama, Mystery, Thriller
6.5
Withnail & I
Comedy, Drama
7.3
Lång-Lasse i Delsbo
Drama
6.0
Die My Love
Drama, Thriller, Comedy
6.3
The Taste of Tea
Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
7.5
A Picture of You
Drama
6.2