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Mother Country

Dir. Zenzō Matsuyama·1962·2h 7m

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.

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Mother Country (1962)

Zenzō Matsuyama

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2h 7m
Cross-source blend ~68/100

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Japan

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6.8/10

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68/100 blend

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Moderate-to-positive blended read — weighted ~68/100 across 1 rating source. The listed meters mostly agree.

Cast

Hideko Takamine

Miyuki Kuwano

Takahiro Tamura

Yoshiko Kuga

Akira Ishihama

Tamotsu Hayakawa

Mickey Curtis

Kōji Mitsui

Yoshi Katō

Masao Shimizu

Akitake Kōno

Kokinji Katsura

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