Mother Country

2h 7m
WarDrama
6.5

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 subtropical 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
Unknown
Miyuki Kuwano
Unknown
Takahiro Tamura
Unknown
Yoshiko Kuga
Unknown
Akira Ishihama
Unknown
Tamotsu Hayakawa
Unknown
Mickey Curtis
Unknown
Kōji Mitsui
Unknown
Yoshi Katō
Unknown
Masao Shimizu
Unknown
Akitake Kōno
Unknown
Kokinji Katsura
Unknown
Keiju Kobayashi
Unknown

Crew

Zenzō Matsuyama
Director, Screenplay
Eijiro Hisaita
Screenplay
Hiroshi Kusuda
Director of Photography
Sennosuke Tsukimori
Producer
Hideko Takamine
Costume Supervisor
Ryuji Matsumoto
Sound Recordist
Ryozo Toyoshima
Lighting Technician
Chūji Kinoshita
Original Music Composer
Shigemasa Toda
Art Direction

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