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.

[5] The film's popular theme song theme was sung by Ichiro Fujiyama and Mitsue Nara.

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