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My Second Brother
JAPAN · 1959

My Second Brother

Shohei Imamura
zainichi identity orphans poverty mining towns childhood struggles
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Synopsis

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.

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