Year One in the North

January. 14,2005      
Rating:
6.6
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

Ken Watanabe as  Komatsubara Hideaki
Sayuri Yoshinaga as  Komatsubara Shino
Etsushi Toyokawa as  Ashirika
Toshiro Yanagiba as  Mamiya Denzo
Satomi Ishihara as  Komatsubara Tae
Yuriko Ishida as  Mamiya Kayo
Teruyuki Kagawa as  Mochida Kurazo
Sadawo Abe as