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The Bridge Between aka Mother Country

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Original title

Sanga ari

Year

1962

Running time

127 min.

Country

Japan

Director

Zenzo Matsuyama

Screenwriter

Eijiro Hisaito, Zenzo Matsuyama

Cast

Music

Chuji Kinoshita

Cinematography

Hiroyuki Kusuda (B&W)

Producer

Shôchiku Eiga

Genre

Drama

Synopsis

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.

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The Bridge Between aka Mother Country

1962

Zenzo Matsuyama