
In 1868, after the fall of the Shogun-dominated Japan, the new government orders people from Awaji, near Kobe, to re-locate to the northern part of Hokkaido. These people once supported the now displaced Samurais of the older days. After two years, over 500 of them settled in their new land under the leadership of Hideaki, husband of Shino. However, as crops fail he is to go to Sapporo to learn new techniques of farming, leaving his wife and daughter for 5 years. All this time, the new community is constantly watched by the government which choose to again uproot them from their new homes.
Cast

Ken Watanabe
Komatsubara Hideaki

Sayuri Yoshinaga
Komatsubara Shino

Etsushi Toyokawa
Ashirika

Toshiro Yanagiba
Mamiya Denzo

Satomi Ishihara
Komatsubara Tae

Yuriko Ishida
Mamiya Kayo

Teruyuki Kagawa
Mochida Kurazo

Sadao Abe
Unknown

Mitsuru Fukikoshi
Unknown

Mitsuru Hirata
Unknown

Renji Ishibashi
Unknown

Moro Morooka
Unknown

Takeo Nakahara
Unknown

Suzuka Ohgo
Unknown

Kaoru Okunuki
Unknown

Shugo Oshinari
Unknown

Susumu Terajima
Unknown

Mayu Tsuruta
Unknown

Hideo Sakaki
Unknown
Kazuki Hiro'oka
Unknown

Meikyo Yamada
Unknown
Crew

Isao Yukisada
Director
Machiko Nasu
Screenplay
Tsuyoshi Imai
Editor
Nobuyasu Kita
Director of Photography
Shinsuke Ohno
Assistant Director

Yusuke Okada
Executive Producer
Sunao Sakagami
Executive Producer
Hiroshi Hayakawa
Executive Producer
Riuko Tominaga
Producer
Asao Tsunoda
Producer

Kazuhito Amano
Producer
Kyōko Heya
Production Design
Hironori Ito
Sound

Katsuro Onoue
Visual Effects Producer

Michiru Oshima
Original Music Composer
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