
My Second Brother
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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Top Cast

Hiroyuki Nagato
Kiichi Yasumoto, eldest brother

Kayo Matsuo
Yoshiko, eldest sister
Takeshi Okimura
Koichi, Nianchan
Akiko Maeda
Sueko, younger sister

Kō Nishimura
Goro Mitamura
Yoshio Ōmori
Seki

Taiji Tonoyama
Hemmi Gengoro

Shinsuke Ashida
Sakai

Tanie Kitabayashi
Hideo Fukuhara

Chigusa Takayama

Hitoshi Takagi
Keiko Tanaka

Shoichi Ozawa
Yoshiko Maki
Imari Tsuji

Jun Hamamura

Hisano Yamaoka

Hideji Ōtaki
Akemi Kayo
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