My Second Brother
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| My Second Brother | |
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| 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 dates
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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.
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
Awards
Wins
- Mainichi Film Award – Best Supporting Actress, Best Sound[1]
- Blue Ribbon Awards – Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor
Nominations
References
External links
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Nianchan at IMDb
- John Lie, "Zainichi Recognitions: Japan’s Korean Residents’ Ideology and Its Discontents." The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus.
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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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