Two Homelands (二つの祖国)
Moving Tale of Second Generation Japanese Americans
Overview
Kenji Amo is a 2nd generation Japanese-American. He was born in America, but went to school in Japan. He returned to America to study at UCLA. Now, Kenji Amo works as a reporter for a newspaper in the Little Tokyo area of Los Angeles. Charlie Tamiya also studied at UCLA with Kenji Amo. Charlie Tamiya has feeling for Nagiko who works with Kenji Amo at the same newspaper company. Knowing that, Kenji Amo holds complicated feelings. At this time, Nagiko's friend Emi Hatanaka asks Kenji Amo to marry her. He accepts her proposal, but the Pacific War begins. Circumstances surrounding Kenji Amo changes.
Key Crew
Director: Hideta Takahata
Producer: Takashi Fujio, Yo Kawahara, Toshihiko Tabuchi
Writer: Yasuo Hasegawa
Top Cast
Shun Oguri
Kenji Amo
Tsuyoshi Muro
Charlie Tamiya
Mackenyu
Amoh Isamu
Kengo Kora
Mikako Tabe
Nagiko
Riisa Naka
Yutaka Matsushige
Yumi Asou
Seasons
Season 1 (2019)
The Pacific War shatters one Japanese American man's life: while his family are incarcerated in Manzanar, he faces his own brother on the battlefield.
2 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: Episode 1
2019-03-23After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Kenji Amoh is sent to an internment camp where Japanese-Americans must declare sole allegiance to the U.S. or Japan.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 2: Episode 2
2019-03-24Kenji visits Hiroshima in the wake of the atomic bombing. Later, he suffers emotional exhaustion when he is assigned to interpret at the Tokyo Trial.
Runtime: N/A min
