poster
Mother Country
First aired on Apr 29, 1962
70%

Genres: War, Drama

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.

Featured Cast: click image to view more
Hideko Takamine |
Miyuki Kuwano |
Takahiro Tamura |
Yoshiko Kuga |
Akira Ishihama |
Tamotsu Hayakawa |
Featured Crew
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Chūji Kinoshita | Original Music Composer
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Hideko Takamine | Costume Supervisor
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Ryuji Matsumoto | Sound Recordist
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Ryozo Toyoshima | Lighting Technician
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Hiroshi Kusuda | Director of Photography
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Eijirō Hisaita | Screenplay