My Second Brother
6.6
8 votes
October 28, 1959
1h 41m
Drama
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.
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Cast
Hiroyuki Nagato
Kiichi Yasumoto, eldest brother
Kayo Matsuo
Yoshiko, eldest sisterT
Takeshi Okimura
Koichi, NianchanA
Akiko Maeda
Sueko, younger sister
Kō Nishimura
Goro MitamuraY
Yoshio Ōmori
Seki
Taiji Tonoyama
Hemmi Gengoro
Shinsuke Ashida
Sakai
Tanie Kitabayashi
H
Hideo Fukuhara
Chigusa Takayama
Hitoshi Takagi
K
Keiko Tanaka
Shoichi Ozawa
Y
Yoshiko Maki
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