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My Second Brother

6.4 101 mins Drama   1959
Nikkatsu Corporation  
Director(s): Shōhei Imamura

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.

Casts of My Second Brother

Hiroyuki Nagato

as Kiichi Yasumoto, eldest brother

Kayo Matsuo

as Yoshiko, eldest sister

Takeshi Okimura

as Koichi, Nianchan

Akiko Maeda

as Sueko, younger sister

Kō Nishimura

as Goro Mitamura

Yoshio Ōmori

as Seki

Taiji Tonoyama

as Hemmi Gengoro

Shinsuke Ashida

as Sakai

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