A Son of the Good Earth

A Son of the Good Earth

Two Fathers (1x1)


Air date: Mar 11, 1996

Chinese orphan Riku Isshin is suspected of being a Japanese special spy and sent to a labor reformatory during the Cultural Revolution. Seven-year-old Matsumoto Katsuo (Riku Isshin) has lost his grandfather and mother, and is separated from his younger sister Atsuko. He was rescued by an elementary school teacher, Riku Tokushi, who raised him as his son. Meanwhile, Matsumoto's Japanese father, Koji Matsumoto, was demobilized and worked at a steel mill while waiting for his family, and later lost his wife, whom he remarried.

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  • Premiered: Mar 1996
  • Episodes: 11
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