Year One in the North
北の零年
Year One in the North Movie Online Soaper TV. 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.
- Genre: Drama, History
- Cast: Ken Watanabe, Sayuri Yoshinaga, Etsushi Toyokawa, Toshiro Yanagiba, Satomi Ishihara, Yuriko Ishida, Teruyuki Kagawa, Sadawo Abe, Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Mitsuru Hirata, Renji Ishibashi, Moro Morooka, Takeo Nakahara, Suzuka Ohgo, Kaoru Okunuki, Shugo Oshinari, Susumu Terajima, Mayu Tsuruta, Hideo Sakaki, Kazuki Hiro'oka, Meikyo Yamada,
