The Sea-God at Sunrise

It is 1841. Japanese fisherman Shima and his younger brother are wrecked on an uninhabited island by a typhoon. Rescued by a passing Yankee whaling ship they become unwilling passengers in a world filled with foreign faces an unfamiliar language and a hostile chief mate. But when the reclusive captain suddenly falls ill Shima and third mate Daniel Ellis stumble upon a secret from his past that brings together their previously isolated worlds. Inspired by the true story of John Manjiro one of the first Japanese-Americans and later interpreter to the shogun The Sea-God at Sunrise is a tale of friendship and forgiveness across two cultures at the height of America's Golden Age of Whaling.