Mother Country (山河あり) 62 years old

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.

Credits

Yoshiko Kuga as

Hideko Takamine as

Keiju Kobayashi as

Takahiro Tamura as

Mother Country Cast

Name	Character
Yoshiko Kuga She was 31, now 93 years old
Hideko Takamine She was 38, 86 years old when she died
Keiju Kobayashi He was 38, 86 years old when he died
Takahiro Tamura He was 33, 77 years old when he died

Mother Country Crew

Name	Department
Zenzô Matsuyama as Director. He was 37 (91) years old when He died	Directing

Mother Country (62 years)

Release day: Sunday, April 29, 1962
Runtime: 127 minutes