Carmen Comes Home

Carmen Comes Home (カルメン故郷に帰る, Karumen kokyō ni kaeru) is a 1951 color Japanese film comedy directed by Keisuke Kinoshita. Filmed using Fujicolor, it was Japan's first domestic post-war color film. However due to printing costs and technical limitations at the time, a black and white version was also filmed, thus requiring actors and actresses re-performing scenes. In addition, most Japanese audiences saw the black and white version.

Carmen Comes Home
From left, Hideko Takamine, Toshiko Kobayashi and Yūko Mochizuki
Directed byKeisuke Kinoshita
Masaki Kobayashi (assistant director)
Zenzo Matsuyama (assistant director)
Produced byShochiku
Written byKeisuke Kinoshita
Music byChuji Kinoshita
Toshiro Mayuzumi
CinematographyHiroyuki Kusuda
Release date
  • March 21, 1951 (1951-03-21)[1]
Running time
86 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese
Budget6800 million Japanese yen

Recently, a digital restoration was carried out by IMAGICA with support from the Japan Foundation using an internegative color copy made by Shochiku from 1975. The restored film premiered at the 2012 Venice Film Festival.[2]

Cast
  • Hideko Takamine as Lily Carmen, Aoyama Kin
  • Shūji Sano as the blind man Haruo Taguchi
  • Chishū Ryū as schoolmaster
  • Kuniko Ikawa as Mitsuko, Haruo's wife
  • Takeshi Sakamoto as Shoichi, Kin's father
  • Bontarō Miyake as Maruju
  • Keiji Sada as Mr. Ogawa, the school teacher
  • Toshiko Kobayashi as Akemi Maya
  • Kōji Mitsui as Maruju's man
  • Yūko Mochizuki (aka Mieko Mochizuki) as Aoyama Yuki, Kin's sister
  • Yoshito Yamaji as village youth
  • Akio Isono as Aoyama Ichiro
  • Sumie Kuwabara
  • Kuninori Takado
  • Eiko Takamatsu
  • Shoichi Kotoda
  • Shusuke Agata
  • Kiyoshi Koike as Aoyama Naokichi
  • Isao Shirosawa as Taguchi Kiyoshi
  • Yoichi Osugi
  • Susumu Takase
  • Jun Tanizaki
  • Akira Noto
  • Jun Yokoyama
  • Shunsuke Kaneko
  • Tami Yamamoto
  • Haruko Chichibu
  • Sakae Ozawa as Maruno Juzo (uncredited)

References
  1. "カルメン故郷に帰る". www.jmdb.ne.jp (in Japanese).
  2. "Carmen Comes Home".

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