My Second Brother
1959 film
- Ichirō Ikeda
- Shohei Imamura
- Sueko Yasumoto (book)
- Hiroyuki Nagato
- Kayo Matsuo
Production
company
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Nikkatsu
Release date
- October 28, 1959 (1959-10-28) (Japan)
Running time
My Second Brother (にあんちゃん, Nianchan) is a 1959 Japanese drama film by Shōhei Imamura. The screenplay is based on the diary of ten-year-old zainichi (ethnic Korean Japanese) Sueko Yasumoto, which became a bestseller upon publication.[1][3]
Plot
The film tells the story of four orphans living in an impoverished mining town.
Cast
- Hiroyuki Nagato as Kiichi Yasumoto, eldest brother
- Kayo Matsuo as Yoshiko, eldest sister
- Takeshi Okimura as Kōichi, second brother
- Akiko Maeda as Sueko, younger sister
- Kō Nishimura as Gorō Mitamura
- Yoshio Ōmori as Seki
- Toshio Takahara as shop assistant (bicycle shop)
- Taiji Tonoyama as Gengorō Henmi
- Shinsuke Ashida as Sakai
- Kazuko Yoshiyuki as Kanako Hori
- Shōichi Ozawa as Haruo Kanayama
- Natsuko Kahara as Kanako's mother
Reception
Film scholar Alexander Jacoby called My Second Brother an "uncharacteristically tender film" for the director.[4]
Awards
- Mainichi Film Award – Best Supporting Actress (Kanako Hori), Best Sound (Fumio Hashimoto)
- Blue Ribbon Awards – Best Actor (Hiroyuki Nagato), Best Supporting Actor (Shōichi Ozawa)
References
- ^ a b "にあんちゃん (My Second Brother)" (in Japanese). Kinenote. Retrieved 4 August 2021.
- ^ "にあんちゃん (My Second Brother)" (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved 4 August 2021.
- ^ "にあんちゃん (My Second Brother)" (in Japanese). Kotobank. Retrieved 4 August 2021.
- ^ Jacoby, Alexander (2008). Critical Handbook of Japanese Film Directors: From the Silent Era to the Present Day. Berkeley: Stone Bridge Press. pp. 65–68. ISBN 978-1-933330-53-2.
External links
- My Second Brother at IMDb
- Lie, John. "Zainichi Recognitions: Japan's Korean Residents' Ideology and Its Discontents". The Asia-Pacific Journal. Retrieved 4 August 2021.
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Films directed by Shōhei Imamura
- Stolen Desire (1958)
- Nishi Ginza Station (1958)
- Endless Desire (1958)
- My Second Brother (1959)
- Pigs and Battleships (1961)
- The Insect Woman (1963)
- Unholy Desire (1964)
- The Pornographers (1966)
- A Man Vanishes (1967)
- Profound Desires of the Gods (1968)
- History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess (1970)
- Karayuki-san, the Making of a Prostitute (1975)
- Vengeance Is Mine (1979)
- Eijanaika (1981)
- The Ballad of Narayama (1983)
- Zegen (1987)
- Black Rain (1989)
- The Eel (1997)
- Dr. Akagi (1998)
- Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (2001)
- 11′09″01 September 11 (2002)
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