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Mother Country

Mother Country

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Status

Released

Release Date

Apr 29, 1962

Runtime

2h 7m

Genres

War, Drama

User Score

65%

Original Title

山河あり

Production Companies

Shochiku

Director

Zenzō Matsuyama

Description

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.