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''The Hawaiians'', released in the UK as ''Master of the Islands'', is a 1970 American historical film based on the novel ''Hawaii'' by James A. Michener. It was directed by Tom Gries with a screenplay by James R. Webb. The cast included Charlton Heston as Whipple Hoxworth and Geraldine Chaplin. The performance by Tina Chen led to a Golden Globe nomination as best supporting actress. The film was based on the book's later chapters, which covered the arrival of the Chinese and Japanese and the growth of the plantations. The third chapter of the book had been made into a film, ''Hawaii'', in 1966. ==Plot== The story begins forty years after the events depicted in the original ''Hawaii'', as a new generation of Americans and Asians must deal with a changing island and world; one of them is a sea captain. Whipple "Whip" Hoxworth (Charlton Heston) returns home to Hawaii to find his grandfather has died and left his fortune to Hoxworth's cousin, Micah Hale (Alec McCowen). Hoxworth, the black sheep of his otherwise very conservative and disapproving family, starts a plantation, staffing it with newly arrived Chinese indentured servants Mun Ki (Mako) and his second wife/concubine Nyuk Tsin (Tina Chen). Mun Ki fathers children with Nyuk Tsin, all the while dreaming of returning to China and his first and officially "real" wife. Nyuk Tsin, named "Wu Chow's Auntie" (Wu Chow being their first son) to support the traditional fiction that Mun Ki's official spouse in China is the real mother of his children, has other ideas. Whip steals valuable pineapples from French Guiana in the hope that they will grow in Hawaii. He gives the forlorn plants to Wu Chow's Auntie, knowing that she has a "green thumb". When she succeeds in nurturing the plants into flourishing, the overjoyed Whip offers to buy her some land as a reward. Over Mun Ki's opposition, she accepts. This is the first step in the rise of both Whip and Wu Chow's Auntie, as well as of the pineapple industry in Hawaii. Meanwhile, Whip marries native Hawaiian Purity (Geraldine Chaplin) and has a son with her. However, because of her inbred royal Hawaiian ancestry, she is mentally fragile. Eventually, her mind gives way, and she can no longer abide to live with Whip. Their son Noel (John Phillip Law) grows to manhood experiencing an uneasy relationship with his father. When Mun Ki contracts leprosy, Wu Chow's Auntie accompanies him to the leper colony on Molokai. Upon Mun Ki's death years later, she returns to be reunited and reacquainted with her now-grown, educated, and prospering children. A complication arises when Noel falls in love with Wu Chow's Auntie's only daughter. Neither parent approves of the marriage, but in the end, they grudgingly accept it. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Hawaiians (film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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