Aoi sanmyaku
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Kanji | 青い山脈 |
Revised Hepburn | Aoi Sanmyaku |
Directed by | Tadashi Imai |
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Based on | Blue Mountain Range by Yōjirō Ishizaka |
Produced by | Sanezumi Fujimoto |
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Cinematography | Asakazu Nakai |
Music by | Ryoichi Hattori |
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Distributed by | Toho |
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Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
Aoi sanmyaku (青い山脈, lit. Blue Mountain Range) is a 1949 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Tadashi Imai.[1][3] It is based on Yōjirō Ishizaka's novel of the same name, which was first published in serialised form in 1947.[4]
Plot
After defending Shinko, student at a rural girls' high school, for seeing a young man from the village, teacher Yukiko, who has just been transferred from Tokyo, finds herself in opposition to the conservative faculty and villagers.
Cast
Actor | Role |
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Setsuko Hara | Yukiko Shimazaki |
Ryō Ikebe | Rokusuke Kaneya |
Michiyo Kogure | Umetaro/Tora Sasai |
Yōko Sugi | Shinko Terazawa |
Ichiro Ryuzaki | Tamao Numata |
Setsuko Wakayama | Kazuko Sasai |
Kamatari Fujiwara | Okamoto-san |
Production and legacy
Aoi sanmyaku was released in two parts, part one on July 19, 1949, part two one week later,[1][2][3] and was highly successful both with the audience and the critics.[5]
The film's popular theme song theme was sung by Ichiro Fujiyama and Mitsue Nara. Ishizaka's novel was adapted again in 1957, 1975 and 1988.[4]
Reception
The Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa cited this movie as one of his 100 favorite films.[6]
References
- ^ a b c d "青い山脈 (Aoi Sanmyaku, Part one)". Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese). Retrieved 23 March 2021.
- ^ a b c "続青い山嶚 (Aoi Sanmyaku, Part two)". Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese). Retrieved 23 March 2021.
- ^ a b Galbraith IV, Stuart (2008). The Toho Studios Story: A History and Complete Filmography. Lanham, Toronto, Plymouth: Scarecrow Press. p. 72. ISBN 978-0-8108-6004-9.
- ^ a b "青い山脈 (Aoi sanmyaku)". Kotobank (in Japanese). Retrieved 23 March 2021.
- ^ Hirano, Kyoko (1992). Mr. Smith Goes to Tokyo: Japanese Cinema Under the American Occupation, 1945–1952. Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press. pp. 234–235. ISBN 1-56098-157-1.
- ^ Thomas-Mason, Lee. "From Stanley Kubrick to Martin Scorsese: Akira Kurosawa once named his top 100 favourite films of all time". Far Out Magazine. Retrieved 23 January 2023.
External links
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- Aoi sanmyaku (Part one) at IMDb
- Aoi sanmyaku (Part two) at IMDb
- Aoi sanmyaku (Part one) at the Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese)
- Aoi sanmyaku (Part two) at the Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese)
- Scene from the film on YouTube
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- Aoi sanmyaku (1949)
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- Jun'ai Monogatari (1957)
- Rice (1957) (also The Rice People)
- Night Drum (1958)
- Kiku to Isamu (1959)
- Bushido, Samurai Saga (1963)
- Brother and Sister (1976)