Year One in the North (14/01/2005)

Production : Toei Company, TV Asahi, Asahi Broadcasting Corporation, Nagoya Broadcasting Network, Hokkaido Television Broadcasting, Kyushu Asahi Broadcasting, Hiroshima Home Television, Toei Tokyo, Toei Video Company, Kaga Electronics, Tokyo FM, Nippan Group Holdings, Up Front, Hokkaido Railway Company, Hokkaido Shinbun Press, Sapporo Breweries, GEO CORPORATION, Prism, The Asahi Shimbun, STELLAR PLACE SAPPORO, Circle K Sunkus, Harvest Futures

Synopsis

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.