FILM REVIEW - Oshin

Description:
It's early spring at the turn of the century in 1907. A girl named Oshin lives with her family in barren and cold Yamagata in northern Japan, upstream of Mogami River. The members of her poor peasant family are her father Sakuzo, Fuji her mother, Naka her grandmother, Shoji her elder brother, Shosuke her younger brother and Ko her younger sister. It is difficult to feed the family on a small income so Sakuzo decides to send Oshin, barely 7, away to work as a live-in servant to "have one less mouth to feed."
Coming to the big screen is a remake of the biggest hit drama in Japanese TV history on its 30th anniversary. Oshin retells the universal tale that moved viewers in 75 countries worldwide!