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, Drama
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
My Father's Glory
Adventure, Drama
7.3
Call of Death
Drama, Thriller
6.0
Kanne Kalaimaane
Drama, Family, Romance
6.6
Signs
Drama, Thriller, Science Fiction, Mystery
6.7
Aśoka
Action, Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, War
6.4
The Return of Martin Guerre
Drama, History
6.8
Viridiana
Drama
7.6
Jamon Jamon
Comedy, Drama, Romance
6.2
Americana
Drama
5.5
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
Drama, Mystery, Horror
7.4
Handsome Serge
Drama
6.9
Dancing at Lughnasa
Drama
5.9
Mahana
Drama
6.6
Livet i finnskogarna
Drama, Romance
3.0
The Quiet Man
Romance, Comedy, Drama
7.3
Red Beard
Drama
8.1
Stromboli
Drama
7.1
The Village
Drama, Mystery, Thriller
6.5
Alexander
War, History, Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance
6.0
Gladiator
Action, Drama, Adventure
8.2