(The Ginger Tree)

Overview: 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.

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Drama

Networks:

BBC One

Year:

1989

Directors:

Anthony Garner

Production companies:

BBC

Actors:

Mary MacKenzie

Count Kentaro Kurihama

Captain Richard Collingsworth

Baroness Aiko Onnodera

Alicia Bassett-Hill

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