Carmen Comes Home (1951)
Karumen kokyô ni kaeru (original title)Reference View | Change View
- 1h 26min
- Comedy
- 22 Dec 1959 (USA)
- Movie
- 1 win.
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Cast
Hideko Takamine | ... |
Kin Aoyama
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Shûji Sano | ... |
Haruo Taguchi
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Chishû Ryû | ... |
The Principal
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Kuniko Igawa | ... |
Mitsuko Taguchi
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Takeshi Sakamoto | ... |
Shoichi Aoyama
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Bontarô Miake | ... |
Maruju
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Keiji Sada | ... |
Mr. Ogawa
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Toshiko Kobayashi | ... |
Maya Akemi
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Kôji Mitsui | ... |
Oka
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Yûko Mochizuki | ... |
Yuki Aoyama
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Yoshindo Yamaji | ... |
Village Youth
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Akio Isono | ... |
Ichiro Aoyama
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Kokuten Kôdô | ... |
Old Man in the Village
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Sumie Kuwabara |
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Eiko Takamatsu |
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Shôichi Kofujita |
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Shûsuke Agata | ... |
(as Shusuke Agata)
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Kiyoshi Koike | ... |
Naokichi Aoyama
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Isao Shirosawa | ... |
Kiyoshi Taguchi
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Yôichi Ôsugi |
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Susumu Takase |
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Jun Tanizaki |
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Akira Noto |
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Jun Yokoyama |
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Shunsuke Kaneko |
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Tami Yamamoto |
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Haruko Chichibu |
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Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
Eitarô Ozawa | ... |
Maruno Juzo (uncredited)
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Directed by
Keisuke Kinoshita |
Written by
Keisuke Kinoshita | ... | (written by) |
Produced by
Ryôtarô Kuwata | ... | assistant producer |
Kiyoshi Takamura | ... | executive producer |
Sennosuke Tsukimori | ... | producer (produced by) |
Music by
Chûji Kinoshita | ||
Toshirô Mayuzumi |
Cinematography by
Hiroshi Kusuda |
Editing by
Yoshi Sugihara |
Editorial Department
Minekazu Inoue | ... | assistant editor |
Fumio Soda | ... | assistant editor |
Midori Tani | ... | assistant editor |
Shizu Ôsawa | ... | assistant editor |
Production Design by
Motoji Kojima |
Set Decoration by
Setsutarô Moriya |
Costume Design by
Shôtarô Hamano |
Makeup Department
Mitsuo Saitô | ... | hair stylist |
Toku Sakuma | ... | key hair stylist |
Production Management
Katsuji Arai | ... | production supervisor |
Tetsutarô Mutô | ... | production manager |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Yûgorô Imai | ... | assistant director |
Kenji Katô | ... | assistant director |
Yoshirô Kawazu | ... | assistant director |
Masaki Kobayashi | ... | assistant director |
Zenzô Matsuyama | ... | assistant director |
Kazui Nihonmatsu | ... | assistant director |
Art Department
Takekazu Akibayashi | ... | assistant set designer |
Kazue Hirataka | ... | assistant art director |
Kintarô Yamamoto | ... | set designer |
Tetsuji Yamazaki | ... | assistant set decorator |
Sound Department
Kunio Hinata | ... | sound recordist |
Kazuo Itô | ... | sound recordist |
Mitsuru Kaneko | ... | sound recordist |
Taku Kawawa | ... | sound recordist |
Fumio Kurosawa | ... | sound recordist |
Rokusaburô Saitô | ... | sound mixer |
Hidetaka Sasaki | ... | sound recordist |
Kôjirô Suematsu | ... | sound recordist |
Hisao Ôno | ... | sound |
Visual Effects by
Kon Shimizu | ... | title design |
Camera and Electrical Department
Yoshifumi Aoki | ... | lighting technician |
Yoshio Aomoto | ... | lighting technician |
Kôhei Arai | ... | lighting technician |
Ryôichi Arano | ... | assistant camera |
Yoshisaburô Hozumi | ... | assistant camera |
Hiroshi Iijima | ... | lighting technician |
Takehiko Kamisaka | ... | lighting technician |
Masayuki Katô | ... | assistant camera |
Tôichirô Narushima | ... | assistant camera |
Takehiko Obi | ... | still photographer |
Haruo Ohara | ... | assistant camera |
Minoru Satô | ... | lighting technician |
Kiyoshi Takahashi | ... | lighting technician |
Toshio Takahashi | ... | lighting technician |
Kuratarô Takamura | ... | assistant camera |
Ryôzô Toyoshima | ... | gaffer |
Shûroku Utsumi | ... | assistant camera |
Script and Continuity Department
Kinnosuke Isozaki | ... | continuity |
Additional Crew
Renko Mihashi | ... | choreographer |
Sadayoshi Mitsui | ... | manufacturer |
Shôtarô Suematsu | ... | stage manager |
Catherine Cadou | ... | french adaptation: original version with subtitles (uncredited) |
Production Companies
- Directors' Association (co-production)
- Shochiku
Distributors
- Alive (1993) (France) (theatrical)
- Brandon Films (1959) (United States) (theatrical) (subtitled)
- Shochiku (1951) (Japan) (theatrical)
- MK2 Éditions (2007) (France) (DVD)
- Polyfilm Verleih (2010) (Austria) (DVD)
- Polyfilm Verleih (2010) (Germany) (DVD)
- Shochiku Home Video (1991) (Japan) (video)
- Shochiku Home Video (2008) (Japan) (DVD)
- Shochiku Home Video (2012) (Japan) (Blu-ray)
- The Criterion Collection (United States) (video) (Internet)
- Versus Entertainment (Spain) (DVD)
Special Effects
Other Companies
- Fujifilm (film stocks)
- TVS-Titra Film (French subtitles: original version with subtitles)
- Takashimaya Department Store Co. (costumes donated by)
- Victor Entertainment (soundtrack)
Storyline
Plot Summary |
With no practical skills and being slightly scatterbrained, Kin Aoyama ran away from her small hometown of Kitakaruizawa at the foot of Mt. Asama and a casual relationship with the sensitive Haruo Taguchi, a composer and organist, for a life in Tokyo. Making good money as stripper Lily Carmen, although she characterizing what she does as art and thus not ashamed of it, she sends much money and gifts home, her father, poor farmer Shoichi Aoyama who has a love/hate relationship both with Kin and the money solely in she having run away, he not aware of the specifics of what she does to earn it. With a week long requisite break, Kin, with her friend and fellow dancer Maya Akemi in tow to help her nurse a broken heart, returns home for the first time both to her family and a now married Taguchi, who was blinded in the war. While some in town see Kin and Maya as breaths of fresh air in bringing culture to their small provincial town, others, including Shoichi and the innocent schoolteacher Mr. Ogawa who Maya has her eyes set on to help her mend her broken heart, are scandalized in not embracing their flashy big city ways. That divide may spread further apart when Kin and Maya decide for various reasons to put on a show performing one of their routines, in the process everyone in town becoming aware of the nature of Kin's work. The voice of what's right and wrong in town, the school's principal may have his own perspective of Kin's return, which places a further light on what is happening in town in general. Written by Huggo |
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Taglines | A gay addition to the exciting season of new Japanese films. See more » |
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Did You Know?
Trivia | The first Japanese color film. See more » |
Goofs | When Carmen and Maya are in the field and Carmen shoves Maya, the camera cuts to a closeup of Maya looking upset, but in the shot before she can be seen laughing under the brim of her hat as Carmen knocks her down. See more » |
Movie Connections | Featured in The Discarnates (1988). See more » |
Quotes |
The principal:
It's a violation of human rights to go against her will to dance. Nowadays, profiteering evils like bicycle racing are allowed to flourish. Maruju's scheme for a nude dance show may be less offensive in comparison. See more » |