1962
6.5 (4 votes)
2h 7m
Genres
War
Drama
Production Companies
Shochiku
Mother Country (山河あり)
Overview
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.
Key Crew
Director of Photography: Hiroshi Kusuda
Screenplay: Zenzō Matsuyama, Eijirō Hisaita
Director: Zenzō Matsuyama
Producer: Sennosuke Tsukimori
