My Second Brother (1959)
19591h 41mDrama
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 NagatoKiichi Yasumoto, eldest brother
Kayo MatsuoYoshiko, eldest sister- TTakeshi OkimuraKoichi, Nianchan
- AAkiko MaedaSueko, younger sister
Kō NishimuraGoro Mitamura- YYoshio ŌmoriSeki
Taiji TonoyamaHemmi Gengoro
Shinsuke AshidaSakai
Tanie Kitabayashi- HHideo Fukuhara
Chigusa Takayama
Hitoshi Takagi- KKeiko Tanaka
Shoichi Ozawa- YYoshiko Maki
- IImari Tsuji
Jun Hamamura
Hisano Yamaoka
Crew
- Director
- Shōhei Imamura
- Writers
- Ichirō IkedaShōhei Imamura
- Music
- Toshirō Mayuzumi
- Cinematography
- Shinsaku Himeda
- Editing
- Mutsuo Tanji
Details
- Released
- October 28, 1959
- Language
- Japanese
- Studio
- Nikkatsu Corporation
- IMDb
- tt0053111
