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Picture Bride

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Original title

Picture Bride

Year

1994

Running time

95 min.

Country

Japan

Director

Kayo Hatta

Screenwriter

Kayo Hatta, Mari Hatta, Diane Mei Lin Mark

Cast

Music

Mark Adler

Cinematography

Claudio Rocha

Producer

Co-production Japan-United States;

Miramax, Cecile Films

Genre

Romance. Drama | Romantic Drama

Synopsis

After 16-year-old Riyo travels all the way from Japan to a Hawaiian sugarcane plantation for an arranged marriage, she is shocked to discover that Matsuji, her husband-to-be, is 43 years old. With not a penny to her name, Riyo has no choice but to wed Matsuji, but she refuses to sleep with him and dedicates herself to working hard in the fields so she can earn enough to return to Japan. Meanwhile, Matsuji clumsily but tenderly attempts to win Riyo's affections. Just as Riyo begins to respond to her husband's flirtations, bigger, less personal problems arise. The long-standing racial and ethnic tensions between the white landowners and the Asian plantation workers break out into open warfare, causing poverty, despair and death.

Awards: 1994: Cannes Film Festival: Nominated for Palme d'Or (Best Film)

1995: Sundance: Audience Award Drama

1995: Independent Spirit Awards: Nominated for Best First Feature

1994: Sundance Film Festival: nominated to Grand Jury Prize - Best Picture U.S..

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Picture Bride

1994

Kayo Hatta

6.2

(118)