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
Pulp Fiction
Thriller, Crime
8.5
Oldboy
Drama, Thriller, Mystery, Action
8.3
Back to the Future
Adventure, Comedy, Science Fiction
8.3
Dirty Dancing
Drama, Music, Romance
7.3
Black Swan
Drama, Thriller, Horror
7.7
GoodFellas
Drama, Crime
8.5
Memento
Mystery, Thriller
8.2
Casino
Crime, Drama
8.0
Philadelphia
Drama
7.7
Citizen Kane
Mystery, Drama
8.0
Pan's Labyrinth
Fantasy, Drama, War
7.8
Incendies
Drama, War, Mystery
8.1
The Shining
Horror, Thriller
8.2
Metropolis
Drama, Science Fiction
8.1
Joker
Crime, Thriller, Drama
8.2
Fantastic Planet
Animation, Science Fiction
7.7
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Drama
8.4
Love and Death
Comedy
7.5
Halloween
Horror, Thriller
7.6
Call of Death
Drama, Thriller
6.0
Papaw Land
Drama, Family
0.0
Truth and Justice
Drama, History
7.6
The Black Sheep
Drama
7.7
Just the Two of Us
Drama, Comedy
0.0
Sweet Land
Drama, Romance
6.3
D'Unbelievables D'Telly
Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Music
9.4
The Stoning of Soraya M.
Crime, Drama
7.6
Winter Sleep
Drama
7.6
Whistle Down the Wind
Crime, Drama
7.1
Withnail & I
Comedy, Drama
7.3
The Burial
Drama, Crime
0.0
Rebecca
Mystery, Romance, Thriller, Drama
7.9
Gladiator
Action, Drama, Adventure
8.2
Straw Dogs
Drama, Thriller
7.1
Signs
Drama, Thriller, Science Fiction, Mystery
6.7
Tropical Malady
Drama, Romance, Fantasy
6.7
Redland
Western, Drama
7.0
American Harvest
Drama
0.0
The Quiet Man
Romance, Comedy, Drama
7.3