A Son of the Good Earth

Japan (1x6)

Air date: Mar 16, 1996

Koji Matsumoto is still searching for his wife and children who disappeared in Manchuria (northeastern China). 1978, Koji returns to Japan and hears that Katsuo (Riku Isshin) and Atsuko, the children he left in China, are still alive. Meanwhile, Riku Isshin was ordered to go to Japan on a business trip and visited Hakone for the first time, where he heard Kiso-bushi (traditional Japanese folk music) and saw Mt. Koji participates in a search for orphans in China and meets a farm woman who remembers Katsuo and Atsuko.