Picture Bride

1994
PG-13
1h 34m

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Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueRiyo marries a man more than twice her age. She is devastated and labors in the sugar cane field. At the end she is able to love her husband.Riyo marries a man more than twice her age. She is devastated and labors in the sugar cane field. At the end she is able to love her husband.Riyo marries a man more than twice her age. She is devastated and labors in the sugar cane field. At the end she is able to love her husband.

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Prix
- 2 victoires et 4 nominations au total

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Anecdotes
When the character played by Toshiro Mifune sees two children playing with stick swords, he calls them out by their names "Toshiro" and "Akira", a reference to himself and director Akira Kurosawa, who directed Mifune in 16 films.

Citations
Riyo: Did you tell the matchmaker about my parents?
Aunt Sode: You mean, how they died? Of course not.
[hands Riyo a picture]
Aunt Sode: Matsuji is such a handsome man. He doesn't look like a sugar cane farmer!
Riyo: [stares at the picture, then grabs the letter next to it and reads] When the mist covers the mountains, I'm reminded of the homeland. Yet, in this South Seas paradise, money is earned with ease, and the eternal fragrance of flowers is but another tropical blessing. In anticipation of your arrival, I'm inspired to write this haiku poem: "Lady Butterfly perfumes her wings by floating over this orchid."
Aunt Sode: I'm worried about you working in the fields, but at least in Hawaii no one will no anything about yur past. That's why it's perfect. Far away, you can leave your past behind and start all over again. Riyo, maybe your luck is changing.

Connexions
Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: French Kiss/My Family/Panther/Village of the Damned/Picture Bride (1995)

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7/10

A Piece of History

The story of 16-year-old Riyo who journeys to Hawaii in 1918 to marry a man she has never met, except through photographs and letters they have exchanged. Hoping to escape a troubled past and to start anew, Riyo is bitterly disappointed upon her arrival: her husband is twice her age and Hawaii is not the paradise she expected.

What really stands out about this film is the look on the new bride's face. I understand her shock of meeting her husband and finding him to be old, but she maintains this look of shock and despair for quite a while. I would expect a marriage like this to be something you accept if you are going to go into it, but she had clearly not thought it through.

Also, historically, it is interesting to consider the role the Japanese had in Hawaii. Americans who may not know about Hawaiian history or culture might only connect Japan to the Pearl Harbor attack, but it happens to be the case that a great many Japanese had settled on the islands. At the time Hawaii became a state (1959), there may have been more Japanese than Europeans there.