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 |
Release date | 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 - 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
- ^ List of awards from: "Japanese Film Festival 2007: True. Romance: Nianchan (にあんちゃん)". Singapore Film Society. 2007. Retrieved 2009-04-23.
{{cite web}}: External link in|publisher= - ^ "IMDB.com: Awards for My Second Brother". imdb.com. Retrieved 2010-01-17.
External links
- Nianchan at IMDb
- John Lie, "Zainichi Recognitions: Japan’s Korean Residents’ Ideology and Its Discontents." The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus.
- [1]
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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