Swimming with Tears (あふれる熱い涙) 32 years old

In the sparsely populated rural areas of Japan, the female population is far smaller than the male. An attempt is made to counter this imbalance by arranging marriages with Filipino women. Fey, a young Filipina, came as a mail-order bride. Although she tries hard, she cannot get on with her husband, either verbally or emotionally. After a year, she flees her snow-country husband with only the clothes on her back and sets out in search of work in Toyko. She wanders through Toyko asking for help in churches and at the Philippine Embassy. She needs to find work to earn enough money for a flight home. She finally finds a job and a place to stay with a Chinese man who is sympathetic to her situation. He introduces her to two of his Japanese neighbors who, when they hear Fey's life story, immediately decide to help her find her Japanese father whom she has never met.

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Swimming with Tears Cast

Name Character
Shirō Sano He was 37, now 69 years old
Ken Yoshizawa He was 13, now 46 years old
Ruby Moreno She was 26, now 59 years old
Sakae Umezu He was 63, 88 years old when he died

Swimming with Tears Crew

Name Department
Swimming with Tears poster
Swimming with Tears (32 years)

  • Release day: Saturday, March 28, 1992
  • Runtime: 104 minutes