Picture Bride

United States, Japan

1994

95 Min

Color

1.85:1

English, Japanese

Currently 2.5/5 Stars.
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SCR Kayo Hatta, Mari Hatta, Diane Mei Lin Mark

CAST Youki Kudoh, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Tamlyn Tomita, Akira Takayama, Yôko Sugi, Christianne Mays, Toshirô Mifune

ED Mallory Gottlieb, Lynzee Klingman

MUSIC Mark Adler

Cannes (Un Certain Regard), Sundance (Dramatic Competition): Audience Award, San Francisco (Opening Night)

Synopsis

Following her parents’ deaths, Riyo (Tamlyn Tomita), a 16-year-old Japanese girl, becomes a “picture bride” for Matsuji, a Hawaiian sugarcane worker who, as is the custom, willingly enters into the arranged marriage. But after Riyo arrives in Hawaii, she discovers that her fiancé has deceived her with an old photo and that Matsuji is really 43. Despite the lie, and with few other options, she marries him — but won’t sleep with him.