Song of the Canefields

Song of the Canefields

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 28, 2003

Runtime

2h 39m

Genres

TV Movie, Drama, War

User Score

77%

Original Title

さとうきび畑の唄

Production Companies

TBS

Director

Katsuo Fukuzawa

Description

Hirayama Koichi and his wife Michiko eloped from Osaka to Okinawa, where they lived happily with their five children. When war erupts, their eldest son is drafted into the Imperial army. As fighting spreads, the family takes refuge far from the city, but soon, child after child is drafted to serve in various branches of the military and in organizations supporting the war cause. Koichi himself is faced with a moral dilemma when he is ordered to kill a wounded American soldier.