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Picture Bride Reviews

  • 1994
  • 1 hr 30 mins
  • Drama
  • PG13
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Tale about a 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. Youki Kudoh, Akira Takayama. Kana: Tamlyn Tomita. Kanzaki: Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa. Kayo Hatta directed.

This lyrical Japanese romance (the debut film of woman director Kayo Hatta) tells the story of 16-year old mail-order bride who finds herself wedded to a middle-aged plantation laborer in 1918 Hawaii. Effective as a portrait of the evolution of an unusual marriage; instructive as a reminder of the racist exploitation of Japanese labor that built Hawaii and much of California.