Movielogr
Mother Country (1962)
Directed by Zenzô Matsuyama
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.
Length 127 minutes
Actors
Hideko Takamine | Miyuki Kuwano | Takahiro Tamura | Yoshiko Kuga | Akira Ishihama | Tamotsu Hayakawa | Mickey Curtis | Kôji Mitsui | Yoshi Katô | Masao Shimizu | Akitake Kôno | Kokinji Katsura | Keiju Kobayashi