My Second Brother

(1959)

★ 6.6 IMDb · 8 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1959

Runtime: 101 мин

Country: Japan

Director: Сёхэй Имамура

Cast: 長門裕之, 松尾嘉代, 沖村武, 前田暁子, 西村晃, 大森義夫, 殿山泰司, 芦田伸介, Таниэ Китабаяши, 福原秀雄

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.