My Second Brother (1959)
Overview
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
Kō Nishimura
Goro Mitamura
Taiji Tonoyama
Hemmi Gengoro
Shinsuke Ashida
Sakai
Tanie Kitabayashi
Chigusa Takayama
Hitoshi Takagi
Shoichi Ozawa
Jun Hamamura
Hisano Yamaoka
Hideji Ōtaki
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