Nomugi Pass (1979)
あゝ野麦峠
The story of the silk industry and the young girls who worked as silk spinners in the early 1900s in Japan. The silk mills were located in Okaya which lies just beyond the Nomugi Pass. The women and girls worked in a hot, humid atmosphere without rest, and endured those conditions and sexual harassment to earn money for their poor families. Across the ocean, it was the great depression in America.
- Date of release
- 1979-06-30
- TMDB
- 7.2 / 10 (4)
- Runtime
- 2h 34m
- Genres
- Drama, History
- Director
- Satsuo Yamamoto
Casting
- Shinobu Otake
- Mieko Harada
- Chikako Yuri
- Yuko Kotegawa
- Takeo Chii
- Shinichirō Mikami
- Kohji Moritsugu
- Makoto Akatsuka
- Sen Yamamoto
- Hōsei Komatsu
- Akihiko Hirata
- Sanae Nakahara
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