My Second Brother

My Second Brother — Plot

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.

• Release date
• October 28, 1959
• Runtime
• 101 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Shōhei Imamura

My Second Brother — 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