Year One in the North
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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.
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Edited by Takeshi ImaiShot by Nobuyasu KitaScored by Michiru Oshima
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2005 · Box office
Grossed $21.4M worldwide
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16 unique people credited
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Sayuri Yoshinaga
as Shino Komatsubara
Ken Watanabe
as Hideaki Komatsubara
Etsushi Toyokawa
as Ashirika
Toshiro Yanagiba
as Denzo Mamiya
Yuriko Ishida
as Kayo Mamiya
Teruyuki Kagawa
as Kurazo Mochida
Satomi Ishihara
as Tae Komatsubara
Sadao Abe
as Matajuro Nakano
Yu Fujiki
as Kamejiro Nakano
Mitsuru Fukikoshi
as Keiichiro Hase
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