

My Second Brother
October 28, 1959•1h 41m•★ 6.6
Drama
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.
Director
Shōhei ImamuraCast

Hiroyuki Nagato
Kiichi Yasumoto, eldest brother

Kayo Matsuo
Yoshiko, eldest sister
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Takeshi Okimura
Koichi, Nianchan
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Akiko Maeda
Sueko, younger sister

Kō Nishimura
Goro Mitamura
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Yoshio Ōmori
Seki

Taiji Tonoyama
Hemmi Gengoro

Shinsuke Ashida
Sakai

Tanie Kitabayashi
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Hideo Fukuhara

Chigusa Takayama

Hitoshi Takagi
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Keiko Tanaka

Shoichi Ozawa
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Yoshiko Maki
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Imari Tsuji

Jun Hamamura

Hisano Yamaoka

Hideji Ōtaki
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Akemi Kayo