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Year One in the North

4.9 169 mins Drama   History   2005
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  
Director(s): Isao Yukisada

Release Date: 14 Fri, Jan 2005

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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