My Second Brother

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Release date: October 28, 1959
Duration: 101 minutes
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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.

Starring

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Hiroyuki Nagato
Kiichi Yasumoto, eldest brother
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Kayo Matsuo
Yoshiko, eldest sister
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Kō Nishimura
Goro Mitamura