Zenzō Matsuyama
Director
Mother Country (1962)
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.
Keywords: tmdb.hawaii, tmdb.immigrant, tmdb.1940s, tmdb.1910s, tmdb.1930s, aspectratio.2-35-1
Production Companies: Shochiku
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127 min
April 29, 1962
Released
NR