Sapporo Tanjo

[Machine Translation] Five men and women lived in uncharted Hokkaido from the end of the Edo period to the Showa period. The first pioneer magistrate, Yoshiyuki Shima, was the first to be appointed to the post, followed by Kanzo Uchimura, who studied at Sapporo Agricultural College with Inazo Nitobe and others; Yaeko Bachira, who was born the daughter of a prominent Ainu tribal leader and later published a collection of songs to inspire her Ainu brethren; Takeo Arishima, who freed his own farmland after working as a popular writer and farm manager; and Bunkichi Okazaki, who worked to flood control the meandering, raging Ishikari River. Bunkichi Okazaki, who worked on flood control of the meandering Ishikari River. This is a large-scale entertainment film that explores the passionate pioneering stories of each of these men.

幕末から昭和にかけて、未知の北海道で生きた5人の男女。初代開拓判官・島義勇を筆頭に、新渡戸稲造らと札幌農学校で学んだ内村鑑三、アイヌ民族の有力者の娘に生まれ、のちにアイヌの同胞を鼓舞する歌集を出版したバチラー八重子、流行作家と農場経営との二足の草鞋の果てに自ら農地を解放した有島武郎、蛇行する暴れ川・石狩川の治水に取り組んだ岡崎文吉。それぞれの熱き開拓の物語に迫る、大型エンターテインメント!