The Ginger Tree (1989)

In 1903, a young Scotswoman goes to join her diplomat fiancé in Manchuria. She marries him, and finds herself in a war zone. Disenchanted with her husband, she falls in love with a married Japanese nobleman, Count Kentaro Kurihama, and bears him a son. She carves out a life for herself in Japanese society, despite the hardships and ostracism she faces as both a Westerner and a woman.

The Ginger Tree

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as Mary MacKenzie

as Count Kentaro Kurihama

as Captain Richard Collingsworth

as Baroness Aiko Onnodera

Joanna McCallum

Joanna McCallum

as Alicia Bassett-Hill

Nicholas Le Prevost

Nicholas Le Prevost

as Sir Claude MacDonald

Nicholas Farrell

Nicholas Farrell

as Father Anthony

as Countess Kurihama

as Isabelle de Chamonpierre

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