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Year One in the North

Title
Year One in the North (2024)
Year One in the North
Year
2024
Catalog
Genre
IMDB
Rating
4.8 from 10 with total 6 votes
Premiere
2005-01-14
Runtime
169 minutes
Description
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.
Cast

Ken Watanabe character Komatsubara Hideaki

Sayuri Yoshinaga character Komatsubara Shino

Etsushi Toyokawa character Ashirika

Toshirō Yanagiba character Mamiya Denzo

Satomi Ishihara character Komatsubara Tae

Yuriko Ishida character Mamiya Kayo

Teruyuki Kagawa character Mochida Kurazo