3:00 - 4:30
Historical based drama about a young Japanese woman who agrees to an arranged marriage in turn-of-the-century Hawaii, but finds that it's not the paradise she thought it would be. Stars Yûki Kudô and Akira Takayama, and with the great Kurosawa actor Toshiro Mifune.
"Slow-moving but engrossing study of the pioneer spirit in Hawaii. Mifune has a nice cameo as a silent-film narrator." — Leonard Maltin
PG-13, 90 min., 1994. Closed captions (CC) in English.
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