Year One in the North
北の零年
Release: 2005-01-14
·Runtime: 169m
·★ 4.9
Drama
History
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.
Production Countries
Japan
Production Companies
Toei Company
TV Asahi
Asahi Broadcasting Corporation
Nagoya Broadcasting Network
Hokkaido Television Broadcasting
Kyushu Asahi Broadcasting
Hiroshima Home Television
Toei Tokyo
Toei Video Company
Kaga Electronics
Tokyo FM
Nippan Group Holdings
Up Front
Hokkaido Railway Company
Hokkaido Shinbun Press
Sapporo Breweries
GEO CORPORATION
Prism
The Asahi Shimbun
STELLAR PLACE SAPPORO
Circle K Sunkus
Harvest Futures
Cast
Mitsuru Fukikoshi
Takeo Nakahara
Hideo Sakaki
Meikyo Yamada
Satomi Ishihara
as Komatsubara Tae
Yuriko Ishida
as Mamiya Kayo
Teruyuki Kagawa
as Mochida Kurazo
Renji Ishibashi
Kaoru Okunuki
Shugo Oshinari
Mayu Tsuruta
Sayuri Yoshinaga
as Komatsubara Shino
Sadawo Abe
Suzuka Ohgo
Ken Watanabe
as Komatsubara Hideaki
Mitsuru Hirata
Moro Morooka
Susumu Terajima
Etsushi Toyokawa
as Ashirika
Toshiro Yanagiba
as Mamiya Denzo
