Ah! Nomugi Toge
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Director Satsuo Yamamoto Music director Masaru Satoh Duration Language Japanese | 7.1/10 IMDb Genre Drama, History Screenplay Kei Hattori Country Japan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Release date June 9, 1979 Writer Kei Hattori, Shigemi Yamamoto (novel) Cast Shinobu Otake (Mine Masai), Mieko Harada (Yuki Shinoda), Yuko Kotegawa (Kiku Shoji), Rentaro Mikuni (Tokichi Adachi), Takeo Chii (Tatsuji Masai) Similar movies The Shogun Assassins (1979) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ah! Nomugi Toge () is a 1979 Japanese film directed by Satsuo Yamamoto.
Contents
The story of the silk industry and the young girls who worked as silk spinners in the early 1900s in Japan. The silk mills were located in Okaya which lies just beyond the Nomugi Pass. The women and girls worked in a hot, humid atmosphere without rest, and endured those conditions and sexual harassment to earn money for their poor families. Across the ocean, it was the great depression in America.
Cast
Plot
An indictment of the treatment of Meiji period silkworkers by their employers.
Production
The film was one of the last made by director Satsuo Yamamoto and was followed by a 1982 sequel, his final work, A, Nomugi toge: Shinryoku hen.
Similar Movies
The Shogun Assassins (1979). Masaru Satoh composed the music for Oh! The Nomugi Pass and Hunter in the Dark. Masaru Satoh composed the music for Oh! The Nomugi Pass and A Distant Cry from Spring. Masaru Satoh composed the music for Oh! The Nomugi Pass and The Yellow Handkerchief. Mieko Harada appears in Oh! The Nomugi Pass and After the Rain.
Awards
34th Mainichi Film Award
References
Ah! Nomugi Toge WikipediaAh! Nomugi Toge IMDbAh! Nomugi Toge themoviedb.org