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Mother Country

Mother Country

★ 6.8/10•1962•2h 7m•War•Drama

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.

Eijiro Hisaita · Screenplay

Zenzō Matsuyama · Screenplay

Zenzō Matsuyama · Director

StatusReleased
Runtime2h 7m
LanguageJA
Release DateApr 29, 1962

Actors

Hideko Takamine

Hideko Takamine

Miyuki Kuwano

Miyuki Kuwano

Takahiro Tamura

Takahiro Tamura

Yoshiko Kuga

Yoshiko Kuga

Akira Ishihama

Akira Ishihama

Tamotsu Hayakawa

Tamotsu Hayakawa

Mickey Curtis

Mickey Curtis

Kōji Mitsui

Kōji Mitsui

Yoshi Katō

Yoshi Katō

Masao Shimizu

Masao Shimizu

Akitake Kōno

Akitake Kōno

Kokinji Katsura

Kokinji Katsura

Keiju Kobayashi

Keiju Kobayashi

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