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Duration
  

Language
  
Japanese

7/10
IMDb

Director
  
Shohei Imamura

My Second Brother movie poster

Writer
  
Ichiro Ikeda
,
Shohei Imamura

Release date
  
1959

My Second Brother (にあんちゃん, Nianchan) is a 1959 Japanese film by director Shohei Imamura.

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Plot

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

  • Hiroyuki Nagato - Kiichi Yasumoto, eldest brother
  • Kayo Matsuo - Yoshiko, eldest sister
  • Takeshi Okimura - Kōichi, Nianchan
  • Akiko Maeda - Sueko, younger sister
  • Kō Nishimura - Gorō Mitamura
  • Yoshio Ōmori - Seki
  • Taiji Tonoyama - Gengorō Henmi
  • Shinsuke Ashida - Sakai

    • Wins

  • Mainichi Film Award – Best Supporting Actress, Best Sound
  • Blue Ribbon Awards – Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor

    • Nominations

  • Berlin Film Festival – Golden Bear

    • References

    My Second Brother Wikipedia
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    My Second Brother IMDb My Second Brother themoviedb.org


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