My Second Brother

6.4
  • Genre: Drama
  • Run time: 101 min
  • Premiere: 1959. October 28.

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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Hiroyuki Nagato

Kiichi Yasumoto, eldest brother

Kayo Matsuo

Yoshiko, eldest sister

Takeshi Okimura

Koichi, Nianchan

Akiko Maeda

Sueko, younger sister

Kō Nishimura

Goro Mitamura

Taiji Tonoyama

Hemmi Gengoro

Art

Kimihiko Nakamura

Art Direction

Camera

Shinsaku Himeda

Director of Photography

Directing

Kirio Urayama

Assistant Director

Editing

Lighting

Yasuo Iwaki

Lighting Director

Sound

Toshirō Mayuzumi

Original Music Composer

Fumio Hashimoto

Sound Recordist

Writing

Ichirō Ikeda

Screenplay

Shōhei Imamura

Screenplay

Art

Kimihiko Nakamura

Art Direction

Camera

Shinsaku Himeda

Director of Photography

Directing

Kirio Urayama

Assistant Director

Editing

Lighting

Yasuo Iwaki

Lighting Director

Sound

Toshirō Mayuzumi

Original Music Composer

Fumio Hashimoto

Sound Recordist

Writing

Ichirō Ikeda

Screenplay

Shōhei Imamura

Screenplay