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My Second Brother

1959 1h 41m 6.6Movie
Drama

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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Shōhei Imamura

Director, Screenplay

Sueko Yasumoto

Novel

Ichirō Ikeda

Screenplay

Top Cast

Hiroyuki Nagato

Hiroyuki Nagato

Kiichi Yasumoto, eldest brother

Kayo Matsuo

Kayo Matsuo

Yoshiko, eldest sister

Takeshi Okimura

Koichi, Nianchan

Akiko Maeda

Sueko, younger sister

Kō Nishimura

Kō Nishimura

Goro Mitamura

Yoshio Ōmori

Seki

Taiji Tonoyama

Taiji Tonoyama

Hemmi Gengoro

Shinsuke Ashida

Shinsuke Ashida

Sakai

Tanie Kitabayashi

Tanie Kitabayashi

Hideo Fukuhara

Chigusa Takayama

Chigusa Takayama

Hitoshi Takagi

Hitoshi Takagi

Keiko Tanaka

Shoichi Ozawa

Shoichi Ozawa

Yoshiko Maki

Imari Tsuji

Jun Hamamura

Jun Hamamura

Hisano Yamaoka

Hisano Yamaoka

Hideji Ōtaki

Hideji Ōtaki

Akemi Kayo

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