Plot Summary:
The story follows a family of Japanese immigrants who crossed over to America 99 years ago. Kusanagi plays both the young Hiramatsu Chokichi (later taken over by Nakai) and his son, Ichiro. When the war breaks out the Japanese immigrants face racism and segregation. Ichiro pledges his alliance to America and gets sent to Europe, second son Jiro stays back with Ichiro's beloved Shinobu (who he has a crush on) and tries to protect his parents' farm. Their two sisters Shizu and Sachie are sent back to Japan and have to experience the horrors of war, one in Hiroshima and the other in Okinawa.
USEFUL LINK:
http://wiki.d-addicts.com/99-nen_no_Ai_~_Japanese_Americans
http://www.tbs.co.jp/japanese-americans/
http://asianmediawiki.com/Japanese_Americans
Main Cast:
Kusanagi Tsuyoshi as Hiramatsu Chokichi (young) and Hiramatsu Ichiro
Nakama Yukie as Hiramatsu (Matsusawa) Shinobu
Yachigusa Kaoru as Hiramatsu Shinobu (present day)
Nakai Kiichi as Hiramatsu Chokichi
Izumi Pinko as Hiramatsu Tomo
Imoto Ayako (イモトアヤコ) as Hiramatsu Tomo (young)
Matsuyama Kenichi as Hiramatsu Jiro
Kamijo Tsunehiko as Hiramatsu Jiro (present day)
Terashima Saki as Hiramatsu Shizu
Kawashima Umika as Hiramatsu Sachie
Kishi Keiko as Hiramatsu Sachie (present day)
Oizumi Yo
Ichikawa Ukon (市川 右近)
Kobayashi Nenji
Sasano Takashi
Nakao Akiyoshi
Kataoka Ainosuke (片岡 愛之助)
Info:
Title:99年の愛~JAPANESE AMERICANS~
Title (romaji): 99-nen no Ai~JAPANESE AMERICANS~
Format: Tanpatsu
Genre: Historical, war, human drama
Episodes: 5
Viewership ratings:
Broadcast network: TBS
Broadcast period: 2010-Nov-3 - 2010-Nov-7
Air time: 21:00
Staff:
Screenwriter: Hashida Sugako
Producer: Setoguchi Katsuaki
Director: Fukuzawa Katsuo
Music: Senju Akira
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: English .srt
TECHNICAL INFO:
Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
Format profile : OpenDML
File size : 1.08 GiB
Duration : 1h 52mn
Overall bit rate : 1 377 Kbps
Video
Format : MPEG-4 Visual
Format profile : Advanced Simple@L5
Format settings, BVOP : Yes
Format settings, QPel : No
Format settings, GMC : No warppoints
Format settings, Matrix : Default (H.263)
Muxing mode : Packed bitstream
Codec ID : XVID
Codec ID/Hint : XviD
Duration : 1h 52mn
Bit rate : 1 240 Kbps
Width : 704 pixels
Height : 396 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 29.970 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Compression mode : Lossy
Audio
Format : MPEG Audio
Format version : Version 1
Format profile : Layer 3
Mode : Joint stereo
Codec ID : 55
Codec ID/Hint : MP3
Duration : 1h 52mn
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 128 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Text
Format : SubRip
Compression mode : Lossless
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