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Picture Bride (1994)

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Release Date
• USA: May 5, 1995
DVD Release Date
• R1: Jun 1, 2004

MPAA Rating
Rated PG-13 for sensuality.

Running Time
1 hour, 35 minutes

Country Japan, USA

Studio Thousand Crane Filmworks

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Other Titles
• Picture Bride
• Bijo photo (1996)



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Genre: Romance, Drama, Marriage, Love, Society, Period Piece, Experimental

Tagline: Hawaii, 1918. She left Japan for a man she had never met, in a new world she couldn't imagine... America.

Plot: After 16-year-old Riyo travels all the way from Japan to a Hawaiian sugarcane plantation for an arranged marriage, she is shocked to discover that Matsuji, her husband-to-be, is 43 years old. With not a penny to her name, Riyo has no choice but to wed Matsuji, but she refuses to sleep with him and dedicates herself to working hard in the fields so she can earn enough to return to Japan. Meanwhile, Matsuji clumsily but tenderly attempts to win Riyo's affections.

Just as Riyo begins to respond to her husband's flirtations, bigger, less personal problems arise. The long-standing racial and ethnic tensions between the white landowners and the Asian plantation workers break out into open warfare, causing poverty, despair and death.

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 Directed by
Kayo Hatta
Fishbowl
 Written by
Kayo Hatta
Fishbowl
 Cast
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
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Toshirô Mifune
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Youki Kudoh
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Tamlyn Tomita
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Akira Takayama
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Yôko Sugi
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 Music By
Mark Adler
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Cliff Eidelman
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