Mother Country
1962•2h 7m•6.8•Released
WarDrama
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.
Director
Zenzō Matsuyama
Writer
Eijiro Hisaita, Zenzō Matsuyama
Languages
Japanese
Studio
Shochiku
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
Production
Company
Shochiku
Producer
Sennosuke Tsukimori
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