Two Homelands

Synopsis

Kenji Amo is a 2nd generation Japanese-American. He was born in America, but went to school in Japan. He returned to America to study at UCLA. Now, Kenji Amo works as a reporter for a newspaper in the Little Tokyo area of Los Angeles. Charlie Tamiya also studied at UCLA with Kenji Amo. Charlie Tamiya has feeling for Nagiko who works with Kenji Amo at the same newspaper company. Knowing that, Kenji Amo holds complicated feelings. At this time, Nagiko's friend Emi Hatanaka asks Kenji Amo to marry her. He accepts her proposal, but the Pacific War begins. Circumstances surrounding Kenji Amo changes.

First Air Date: 2019-03-23

Last Air Date: 2019-03-24

Number of Seasons: 1

Number of Episodes: 2

Networks: TV Tokyo

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Top Cast

Shun Oguri as Kenji Amo
Tsuyoshi Muro as Charlie Tamiya
Mackenyu as Amoh Isamu
Kengo Kora as N/A
Mikako Tabe as Nagiko
Riisa Naka as N/A
Yutaka Matsushige as N/A
Yumi Aso as N/A
Kiara Minegishi as N/A
Paolo Andrea Di Pietro as Ronnie

Seasons

Season 1 (2019)

The Pacific War shatters one Japanese American man's life: while his family are incarcerated in Manzanar, he faces his own brother on the battlefield.

Episodes:

Ep. 1: Episode 1 (2019-03-23)

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Kenji Amoh is sent to an internment camp where Japanese-Americans must declare sole allegiance to the U.S. or Japan.
Ep. 2: Episode 2 (2019-03-24)

Kenji visits Hiroshima in the wake of the atomic bombing. Later, he suffers emotional exhaustion when he is assigned to interpret at the Tokyo Trial.