My Second Brother

The story

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.

Cast & crew

Hiroyuki NagatoKiichi Yasumoto, eldest brother

Kayo MatsuoYoshiko, eldest sister

Takeshi Okimura

Takeshi OkimuraKoichi, Nianchan

Akiko Maeda

Akiko MaedaSueko, younger sister

Kō NishimuraGoro Mitamura

Yoshio Ōmori

Yoshio ŌmoriSeki

Taiji TonoyamaHemmi Gengoro

Shinsuke AshidaSakai

Tanie KitabayashiCast

Hideo Fukuhara

Hideo FukuharaCast

Chigusa TakayamaCast

Hitoshi TakagiCast