Aoi sanmyaku explained

Aoi sanmyaku

Native Name:

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Revhep:	Aoi Sanmyaku
Kanji:	青い山脈

Director:

Tadashi Imai

Producer:

Sanezumi Fujimoto

Music:

Ryoichi Hattori

Cinematography:

Asakazu Nakai

Distributor:

Toho

Released:

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Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

is a 1949 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Tadashi Imai.^[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
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, 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.

Reception

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

Notes and References

Web site: 青い山脈 (Aoi Sanmyaku, Part one) . Japanese Movie Database . ja . 23 March 2021.
Web site: 続青い山嶚 (Aoi Sanmyaku, Part two) . Japanese Movie Database . ja . 23 March 2021.
Book: Galbraith IV, Stuart . 2008 . The Toho Studios Story: A History and Complete Filmography . Lanham, Toronto, Plymouth . Scarecrow Press . 72 . 978-0-8108-6004-9.
Web site: 青い山脈 (Aoi sanmyaku) . Kotobank . 23 March 2021 . ja.
Book: Hirano, Kyoko . 1992 . Mr. Smith Goes to Tokyo: Japanese Cinema Under the American Occupation, 1945–1952 . Washington and London . Smithsonian Institution Press . 234–235 . 1-56098-157-1.
Web site: Thomas-Mason . Lee . From Stanley Kubrick to Martin Scorsese: Akira Kurosawa once named his top 100 favourite films of all time . Far Out Magazine . 23 January 2023.