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My Second Brother (1959)

My Second Brother (1959)

Drama
Release Date: 1959, October 28
Directors: Shōhei Imamura
Countries: Japan
Production: Nikkatsu Corporation
Cast: Taiji Tonoyama, Kō Nishimura, Hiroyuki Nagato, Kayo Matsuo, Shinsuke Ashida, Yoshio Ōmori, Takeshi Okimura, Akiko Maeda

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.