Karumen Kokyo ni Kaeru

Carmen Comes Home

by Keisuke Kinoshita

Japan - 1951

Monday, June 3th • 2PM
At Chaktomuk

Feature Film - 86mn

Color

Japanese with English subtitles

CinematographyHiroyuki Kusuda

Music Chuji Kinoshita, Toshiro Mayuzumi

Cast Hideko Takamine, Shuji Sano, Chishu Ryu, Kuniko Igawa, Takeshi Sakamoto

Format 35mm 1:37:1 - Mono

Genre Comedy

First Release March 21, 1951

Production Shochiku Company

Synopsis A girl who had left her small Japanese village for the excitement and adventure of the big city, in this case, Tokyo, returns home years later for a visit. However, scandal erupts when the villagers find out what she has been doing in Tokyo all these years, she’s a stripper

About Filmed using Fujicolor, this film is the first Japanese color film. Keisuke Kinoshita begins his career at the Shochiku Kamata Studios, where Ozu, Mikio Naruse and other famous directors worked. Throughout his career, Kinoshita made many films which were both critically and commercially successful. The Ballad of Narayama (1958) was in selection as the Japanese entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 31st Academy Awards but this award was won by Jacques Tati with My Uncle (France).

Selected filmography of Keisuke Kinoshita
(1912 - 1998)

1943 – Port of Flowers

1948 – The Portrait

1954 – Twenty-Four Eyes

1958 – The Ballad of Narayama

1961 – Immortal Love

1988 – Father

With the courtesy of Shochiku Company and National Film Center of Tokyo