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 |
Starring | |
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]
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.
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 |
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]
The Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa cited this movie as one of his 100 favorite films.[6]