Year One in the North

Jan 14, 2005

2h 49m

★ 4.9

Overview

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.

Genres

Drama

History

Production Companies

Toei Company

Toei Labo Tech

Malin Post Production.

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

OKAYASU SHOJI

The Asahi Shimbun

STELLAR PLACE SAPPORO

Circle K Sunkus

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Cast

Komatsubara Hideaki

Ken Watanabe

Komatsubara Shino

Sayuri Yoshinaga

Ashirika

Etsushi Toyokawa

Mamiya Denzo

Toshiro Yanagiba

Komatsubara Tae

Satomi Ishihara

Mamiya Kayo

Yuriko Ishida

Mochida Kurazo

Teruyuki Kagawa

Sadawo Abe

Mitsuru Fukikoshi

Mitsuru Hirata

Renji Ishibashi

Moro Morooka

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