Mother Country
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- Runtime
- 127 mins
In 1919, a group of Japanese immigrants arrives in Hawaii. Among them Yoshio Inoue and his wife Kishimo and Sumi, a young woman ready to get married soon. With the soil that is hard to work and the subtroipical climate, the immigrants have to cope with a hard life. But after years of hard work, Yoshio finds work as a teacher while his wife manages to open a small grocery store. But with the war around the corner, life becomes more and more complicated for the Japanese immigrants in a foreign country.
In 1919, a group of Japanese immigrants arrives in Hawaii. Among them Yoshio Inoue and his wife Kishimo and Sumi, a young woman ready to get married soon. With the soil that is hard to work and the subtroipical climate, the immigrants have to cope with a hard life. But after years of hard work, Yoshio finds work as a teacher while his wife manages to open a small grocery store. But with the war around the corner, life becomes more and more complicated for the Japanese immigrants in a foreign country.
Cast
- Hideko Takamine
- Miyuki Kuwano
- Takahiro Tamura
- Yoshiko Kuga
- Akira Ishihama
- Tamotsu Hayakawa
- Mickey Curtis
- Kōji Mitsui
- Yoshi Katō
- Masao Shimizu
- Akitake Kōno
- Kokinji Katsura
- Keiju Kobayashi
Director
- Zenzō Matsuyama
Producers
- Sennosuke Tsukimori
Screenwriter
- Zenzō Matsuyama
- Eijirō Hisaita
