Simple, direct, dreary women's film on the travails of a mail-order Japanese bride in the Hawaiian cane fields of 1918. A moment of brightening when Toshiro Mifune arrives at the plantation to narrate a silent samurai film. With Youki Kudoh, Tamlyn Tomita; directed by Kayo Hatta. (1995) — Duncan Shepherd
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