Movie

My Second Brother (1959)

• 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.

Director

Shōhei Imamura

Writers

Sueko Yasumoto, Ichirō Ikeda, Shōhei Imamura

Starring

Hiroyuki Nagato, Kayo Matsuo, Takeshi Okimura