North Year Zero

A picture of love and struggle in the northern wilderness After the shogunate system was declared over, the Meiji Restoration brought huge changes to Japanese society. The Inada family, whose ancestors lived in Awaji, Shikoku, was ordered by the Meiji government to move to Shizunai in Hokkaido due to political disputes within the Tokushima domain. In the fourth year of Meiji (1871), the first batch of 546 members of the Inada family finally arrived in Hokkaido after half a month of turbulence by boat. On this ship sits the wife of Komatsubara Hideaki (played by Ken Watanabe) - Komatsubara Shino (played by Sayuri Yoshinaga). She has been taking care of the family affairs, and this time she is also the backbone of the entire ship. Komatsubara Hideaki arrived as an advance team in Shigenai to start reclaiming the land, and the couple were reunited. The people of the Inada family ignited the ambition to build their own home. Under the leadership of Hideaki Komatsubara, they wanted to open up a new world on this land. However, the cold climate conditions and dense virgin forests of Hokkaido are completely different from the warmth and richness of my hometown. The crops brought by Awaji cannot grow here at all. At this time, the second immigration group encountered a shipwreck and suffered heavy casualties. The samurai class was completely abolished due to the abolition of feudal vassals and the establishment of counties. The granary was burned down... and blows came one after another. Faced with these blows, almost all the men began to waver. Xiao Matsubara, who was born in a samurai family,