Mother Country (1962)

Mother Country 1962 / 山河あり 1962 / The Bridge Between , Sanga Ari

In 1919, a group of Japanese immigrants arrives in Hawai‘i. Among them are Inoue Yoshio and his wife Kishino, and Sumi, a young woman ready to get married soon. With soil that is hard to work, and a subtropical climate, the immigrants must cope with a hard life. 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 the U.S. (Source: The Hawaii Herald)