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
Yuriko Ishida
as Mamiya Kayo
Sadawo Abe
Mitsuru Hirata
Renji Ishibashi
Meikyo Yamada
Sayuri Yoshinaga
as Komatsubara Shino
Toshiro Yanagiba
as Mamiya Denzo
Satomi Ishihara
as Komatsubara Tae
Teruyuki Kagawa
as Mochida Kurazo
Takeo Nakahara
Shugo Oshinari
Ken Watanabe
as Komatsubara Hideaki
Mitsuru Fukikoshi
Moro Morooka
Suzuka Ohgo
Susumu Terajima
Mayu Tsuruta
Etsushi Toyokawa
as Ashirika
Kaoru Okunuki
Hideo Sakaki
