My Second Brother

My Second Brother
Directed by	Shohei Imamura
Written by	Ichirô Ikeda Shohei Imamura
Starring	Hiroyuki Nagato Kayo Matsuo Takeshi Okimura Akiko Maeda Kô Nishimura Yoshio Omori Taiji Tonoyama Shinsuke Ashida Tanie Kitabayashi
Cinematography	Sinsaku Himeda
Distributed by	Nikkatsu Corporation
Release date(s)	1959
Running time	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 - Koichi, Nianchan
• Akiko Maeda - Sueko, younger sister
• Kô Nishimura - Goro Mitamura
• Yoshio Omori - Seki
• Taiji Tonoyama - Hemmi Gengoro
• Shinsuke Ashida - Sakai

Awards

Wins

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

Nominations

• Berlin Film Festival – Golden Bear

External links

• Nianchan at the Internet Movie Database
• 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.