Movie: Mother Country

Top 10 Billed Cast

Hideko Takamine
高峰秀子

Miyuki Kuwano
桑野みゆき

Takahiro Tamura
田村高廣

Yoshiko Kuga
久我美子

Akira Ishihama
石濱朗

Tamotsu Hayakawa
早川保

Mickey Curtis
五十嵐 信次郎

Kōji Mitsui
三井弘次

Yoshi Katō
加藤嘉

Masao Shimizu
清水将夫

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    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.

  • Release Date

    1962-04-29

  • Average

    6.5

  • Rating:

    3.3 starts
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  • Languages:

    日本語
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