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My Second Brother
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.
Cast
- Hiroyuki Nagato as Kiichi Yasumoto, eldest brother
- Kayo Matsuo as Yoshiko, eldest sister
- Takeshi Okimura as Koichi, Nianchan
- Akiko Maeda as Sueko, younger sister
- Kō Nishimura as Goro Mitamura
- Yoshio Ōmori as Seki
- Taiji Tonoyama as Hemmi Gengoro
- Shinsuke Ashida as Sakai
- Tanie Kitabayashi
- Hideo Fukuhara
- Chigusa Takayama
- Hitoshi Takagi
Details
- Director
- Shōhei Imamura
- Released
- October 28, 1959
- Runtime
- 1h 41m
- Genres
- Drama
- Studio
- Nikkatsu Corporation
- Status
- Released
- TMDB score
- 6.6 / 10 from 8 votes
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