Mother Country

Name: Mother Country
Genre: War, Drama
Released: 29 Apr 1962
Rating: 6.50
Cast: Hideko Takamine, Miyuki Kuwano, Takahiro Tamura, Yoshiko Kuga, Akira Ishihama

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.

Year: 1962

Genre: War, Drama

Studio: Shochiku

Director: Zenzō Matsuyama

Cast: Hideko Takamine, Miyuki Kuwano, Takahiro Tamura, Yoshiko Kuga, Akira Ishihama, Tamotsu Hayakawa

Crew: Hiroshi Kusuda (Director of Photography), Zenzō Matsuyama (Screenplay), Ryozo Toyoshima (Lighting Technician), Ryuji Matsumoto (Sound Recordist), Chūji Kinoshita (Original Music Composer), Hideko Takamine (Costume Supervisor)

Runtime: 127 minutes

Release: Apr 29, 1962

IMDb: 6.50/10 by 4 users

Popularity: 2

Country: Japan

Language: 日本語