Overview
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 as Kiichi Yasumoto, eldest brother
- Kayo Matsuo as Yoshiko, eldest sister
- Takeshi Okimura as Koichi, Nianchan
- Akiko Maeda as Sueko, younger sister
- Kō Nishimura as Goro Mitamura
- Yoshio Ōmori as Seki
- Taiji Tonoyama as Hemmi Gengoro
- Shinsuke Ashida as Sakai
- Tanie Kitabayashi
- Hideo Fukuhara