My Second Brother
| My Second Brother | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Shohei Imamura |
| Written by |
Ichirō Ikeda Shohei Imamura |
| Starring |
Hiroyuki Nagato Kayo Matsuo Takeshi Okimura Akiko Maeda Kō Nishimura Yoshio Ōmori Taiji Tonoyama Shinsuke Ashida Tanie Kitabayashi |
| Cinematography | Shinsaku Himeda |
| Distributed by | Nikkatsu Corporation |
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Release date
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1959 |
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Running time
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101 minutes |
| Language | Japanese |
My Second Brother (にあんちゃん? Nianchan) is a 1959 Japanese film by director Shohei 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.
Adapted from chapter four of Zainichi (Koreans in Japan): Diasporic Nationalism and Postcolonial Identity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008). Accessed April 4, 2009.
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