Year One in the North

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.

4.9

169 min

Cast

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

Sadao Abe

Mitsuru Fukikoshi

Mitsuru Hirata

Renji Ishibashi

Moro Morooka

Takeo Nakahara

Suzuka Ohgo

Kaoru Okunuki

Shugo Oshinari

Susumu Terajima

Mayu Tsuruta

Hideo Sakaki

Kazuki Hiro'oka

Meikyo Yamada

Director

Isao Yukisada