11 Season
84 Episode
Under the Sun - Season 2 Episode 7 Matchmaker, Matchmaker (2000)
By the end of the century over half of the villages in rural Japan could be ghost towns. They all suffer from the same problem - an acute shortage of young women. Japanese girls just don't want to marry Japanese farmers any more. The lonely bachelor farmers are contracting international matchmakers like Sakae Shimada to help them find a bride. The programme follows two farmers from Japan and their marriage to two women from the Philippines.
- Country : United Kingdom
- Genre : Documentary
- Studio : BBC Two
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