Picture Bride (film)
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Picture Bride is a 1994 independent film directed by Kayo Hatta from a script by Hatta, Mari Hatta and Diane Mei Lin Mark, co-produced by Diane Mei Lin Mark and Lisa Onodera. It premiered at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award for narrative feature film. The film, considered a landmark Asian American work, also received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best First Feature (for director Hatta), and was released by Miramax Films. It stars Youki Kudoh, Akira Takayama, Tamlyn Tomita, and Toshiro Mifune.
It follows Riyo, who arrives in Hawaii as a "picture bride" for a man she has never met before. The story is based on the historical practice of (mostly) Japanese and Korean men in the United States for work sending away to their homelands for wives.
[edit] Trivia
- This is Toshiro Mifune's last English language film and the second last movie of his career.
[edit] External Links
- Picture Bride at the IMDB
