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Mother Country

65% | Apr 29, 1962
War Drama

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.

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Eijirō Hisaita
Screenplay
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Chūji Kinoshita
Original Music Composer
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Hiroshi Kusuda
Director of Photography
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Zenzō Matsuyama
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Ryuji Matsumoto
Sound Recordist
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Ryozo Toyoshima
Lighting Technician
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Hideko Takamine
Costume Supervisor
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Zenzō Matsuyama
Director
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Sennosuke Tsukimori
Producer
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Shigemasa Toda
Art Direction

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