The Bridge Between aka Mother Country
1962·Japan·127 min.
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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. Zenzo Matsuyama's second feature film, starring Takahiro Tamura and Matsuyama's wife Hideko Takamine.
DirectorZenzo Matsuyama
MusicChuji Kinoshita
CinematographyHiroyuki Kusuda
CastTakahiro Tamura·Hideko Takamine·Tamotsu Hayakawa·Mickey Curtis·Keiju Kobayashi·Yoshiko Kuga·Akira Ishihama·Miyuki Kuwano·Kokinji Katsura·Akitake Kôno·Hiroji Mitsui
Original titleSanga ari