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My Second Brother (1959)
Directed by Shōhei Imamura
Drama · 1h 41m
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
Kiichi Yasumoto, eldest brother
Kayo Matsuo
Yoshiko, eldest sister
T
Takeshi Okimura
Koichi, Nianchan
A
Akiko Maeda
Sueko, younger sister
Kō Nishimura
Goro Mitamura
Y
Yoshio Ōmori
Seki
Taiji Tonoyama
Hemmi Gengoro
Shinsuke Ashida
Sakai
Tanie Kitabayashi
H
Hideo Fukuhara
Chigusa Takayama
Hitoshi Takagi
Crew
- Director
- Shōhei Imamura
- Screenplay
- Ichirō Ikeda, Shōhei Imamura
- Novel
- Sueko Yasumoto
- Director of Photography
- Shinsaku Himeda
- Original Music Composer
- Toshirō Mayuzumi
- Editor
- Mutsuo Tanji
Details
- Original title
- にあんちゃん
- Release date
- 1959-10-28
- Runtime
- 1h 41m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- JA
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- Nikkatsu Corporation