Mother Country

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.

• Zenzō MatsuyamaScreenplay
• Chūji KinoshitaOriginal Music Composer
• Eijiro HisaitaScreenplay
• Zenzō MatsuyamaDirector

• Hideko TakamineCast
• Miyuki KuwanoCast
• Takahiro TamuraCast
• Yoshiko KugaCast
• Akira IshihamaCast
• Tamotsu HayakawaCast
• Mickey CurtisCast
• Kōji MitsuiCast
• Yoshi KatōCast
• Masao ShimizuCast
• Akitake KōnoCast
• Kokinji KatsuraCast