Mother Country
(1962)
★ 6.8 IMDb · 5 votes
Year: 1962
Runtime: 127 мин
Country: Japan
Director: 松山善三
Cast: 高峰秀子, 桑野みゆき, 田村高廣, 久我美子, 石濱朗, 早川保, Мики Кёртис, 三井弘次, Ёси Като, 清水将夫
Plot
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 subtropical 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.