Aoi sanmyaku

Aoi sanmyaku
Aoi sanmyaku
	Theatrical release poster
Japanese	青い山脈
Hepburn	Aoi Sanmyaku
Directed by	Tadashi Imai
Written by	Tadashi Imai; Toshirō Ide; Yōjirō Ishizaka (novel);
Produced by	Sanezumi Fujimoto
Starring	Setsuko Hara; Ryō Ikebe; Michiyo Kogure; Yōko Sugi;
Cinematography	Asakazu Nakai
Music by	Ryoichi Hattori
Production; companies	Fujimoto Production; Toho;
Distributed by	Toho
Release date	July 19, 1949 (Part one); July 26, 1949 (Part two);
Running time	91 minutes (Part one); 91 minutes (Part two);
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]

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

Production and legacy[]

Aoi sanmyaku was released in two parts, part one on July 19th 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]

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d "青い山脈 (Aoi Sanmyaku, Part one)". Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese). Retrieved 23 March 2021.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c "続青い山嶚 (Aoi Sanmyaku, Part two)". Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese). Retrieved 23 March 2021.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Galbraith IV, Stuart (2008). The Toho Studios Story: A History and Complete Filmography. Lanham, Toronto, Plymouth: Scarecrow Press. p. 72. ISBN 978-0-8108-6004-9.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "青い山脈 (Aoi sanmyaku)". Kotobank (in Japanese). Retrieved 23 March 2021.
^ Hirano, Kyoko (1992). Mr. Smith Goes to Tokyo: Japanese Cinema Under the American Occupation, 1945–1952. Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press. pp. 234–235. ISBN 1-56098-157-1.

External links[]

Aoi sanmyaku (Part one) at IMDb
Aoi sanmyaku (Part two) at IMDb
Aoi sanmyaku (Part one) at the Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese)
Aoi sanmyaku (Part two) at the Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese)
Scene from the film on YouTube

[jmdb-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d "青い山脈 (Aoi Sanmyaku, Part one)". Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese). Retrieved 23 March 2021.

[jmdb2-2] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c "続青い山嶚 (Aoi Sanmyaku, Part two)". Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese). Retrieved 23 March 2021.

[galbraith-3] Jump up to: ^a ^b Galbraith IV, Stuart (2008). The Toho Studios Story: A History and Complete Filmography. Lanham, Toronto, Plymouth: Scarecrow Press. p. 72. ISBN 978-0-8108-6004-9.

[kotobank-4] Jump up to: ^a ^b "青い山脈 (Aoi sanmyaku)". Kotobank (in Japanese). Retrieved 23 March 2021.

[Hirano-5] Hirano, Kyoko (1992). Mr. Smith Goes to Tokyo: Japanese Cinema Under the American Occupation, 1945–1952. Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press. pp. 234–235. ISBN 1-56098-157-1.

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