Mother Country
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
- Country: Japan
- Genre: War, Drama
- Studio: Shochiku
- Keyword: immigrant, hawaii, 1940s, 1910s, 1930s
- Director: Zenzō Matsuyama
- Cast: Hideko Takamine, Miyuki Kuwano, Takahiro Tamura, Yoshiko Kuga, Akira Ishihama, Tamotsu Hayakawa
