Year One in the North
14/01/2005
In 1868, after the fall of the Shogun-dominated Japan, the new government orders people from Awaji, near Kobe, to re-locate to the northern part of Hokkaido. These people once supported the now displaced Samurais of the older days. After two years, over 500 of them settled in their new land under the leadership of Hideaki, husband of Shino. However, as crops fail he is to go to Sapporo to learn new techniques of farming, leaving his wife and daughter for 5 years. All this time, the new community is constantly watched by the government which choose to again uproot them from their new homes.
Movie Information
Ken Watanabe
as Komatsubara Hideaki
Sayuri Yoshinaga
as Komatsubara Shino
Etsushi Toyokawa
as Ashirika
Toshiro Yanagiba
as Mamiya Denzo
Satomi Ishihara
as Komatsubara Tae
Yuriko Ishida
as Mamiya Kayo
Teruyuki Kagawa
as Mochida Kurazo
Sadawo Abe
as
Mitsuru Fukikoshi
as
Mitsuru Hirata
as
Renji Ishibashi
as
Moro Morooka
as
Takeo Nakahara
as
Suzuka Ohgo
as
Kaoru Okunuki
as
Shugo Oshinari
as
Susumu Terajima
as
Mayu Tsuruta
as
Hideo Sakaki
as
Kazuki Hiro'oka
as
Meikyo Yamada
as
