Akira Takayama, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Tamlyn Tomita
Following her parents' deaths, Riyo (Tamlyn Tomita), a 16-year-old Japanese girl, becomes a "picture bride" for Matsuji, a Hawaiian sugarcane worker who, as is the custom, willingly enters into the ar...( read more
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DVD Release Date: June 1, 2004
Stats: 54 reviews
The last time I saw this movie was a couple of months back, and the first was in high school. This is a tremendous movie! It details a life of a young Japanese woman who becomes a "picture bride" to a sugar-cane field worker in Hawaii. The movie details their arrangement, marria...( read more)
This is another reason why I love them Sundance films, because they focus on real stories, stories that educate us and give us a deeper insight of what was or how it was for everyone back in the days.
The tittle of this movie is so right and it might give an idea of what it is a...( read more)
A film without a brain. Story of a Japanese girl who sulks for 90 minutes and faints at the sight of a centipede. Can it get anymore boring?
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