Carmen Comes Home

Carmen Comes Home
Hideko Takamine as Carmen
Directed byKeisuke Kinoshita
Written byKeisuke Kinoshita
Produced byKiyoshi Takamura
StarringHideko Takamine
Chishū Ryū
CinematographyHiroyuki Kusuda
Edited byYoshi Sugihara
Music byChūji Kinoshita
Toshirō Mayuzumi
Production
company
Distributed byShochiku
Release date
  • 21 March 1951 (1951-03-21) (Japan)[1]
Running time
86 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese
Budget$125,000[2]

Carmen Comes Home (カルメン故郷に帰る, Karumen kokyō ni kaeru) is a 1951 Japanese comedy film directed by Keisuke Kinoshita. It was Japan's first feature length colour film.[3]

  1. ^ "Entry for Carmen Comes Home at the Japanese Movie Database" (in Japanese). Retrieved 30 December 2020.
  2. ^ "Nip's 1st Color Feature to Be Ready in 1951". Variety. 11 October 1950. p. 15.
  3. ^ Jacoby, Alexander (2008). Critical Handbook of Japanese Film Directors: From the Silent Era to the Present Day. Berkeley: Stone Bridge Press. ISBN 978-1-933330-53-2.