My Second Brother (1959)
にあんちゃん
The film tells the story of four orphans living in an impoverished mining town. An adaptation of a best-selling book based on the diary of a ten-year-old zainichi (ethnic Korean Japanese) girl, it was one of the first films to deal with the subject of zainichi identity and struggles in Japan.
- Date of release
- 1959-10-28
- TMDB
- 6.6 / 10 (8)
- Runtime
- 1h 41m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Shōhei Imamura
Casting
- Hiroyuki Nagato — Kiichi Yasumoto, eldest brother
- Kayo Matsuo — Yoshiko, eldest sister
- Takeshi Okimura — Koichi, Nianchan
- Akiko Maeda — Sueko, younger sister
- Kō Nishimura — Goro Mitamura
- Yoshio Ōmori — Seki
- Taiji Tonoyama — Hemmi Gengoro
- Shinsuke Ashida — Sakai
- Tanie Kitabayashi
- Hideo Fukuhara
- Chigusa Takayama
- Hitoshi Takagi
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