Year One in the North

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Ken Watanabe

Komatsubara Hideaki

Age : 64 | Popularity : 12%

Sayuri Yoshinaga

Komatsubara Shino

Age : 79 | Popularity : 6%

Etsushi Toyokawa

Ashirika

Age : 62 | Popularity : 8%

Toshiro Yanagiba

Mamiya Denzo

Age : 63 | Popularity : 4%

Satomi Ishihara

Komatsubara Tae

Age : 37 | Popularity : 17%

Yuriko Ishida

Mamiya Kayo

Age : 54 | Popularity : 19%

Teruyuki Kagawa

Mochida Kurazo

Age : 58 | Popularity : 5%

Sadawo Abe

Age : 54 | Popularity : 4%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Sound	Music	Michiru Oshima
	Sound	Hironori Ito
Directing	Director	Isao Yukisada
Art	Production Design	Kyōko Heya
Production	Producer	Riuko Tominaga Asao Tsunoda Kazuhito Amano
	Executive Producer	Yusuke Okada Sunao Sakagami Hiroshi Hayakawa
Camera	Director of Photography	Nobuyasu Kita
Writing	Screenplay	Machiko Nasu
Editing	Editor	Tsuyoshi Imai
Visual Effects	Visual Effects Producer	Katsuro Onoue
Department	Role	Name

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