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.
Shōhei Imamura
Director
Hiroyuki Nagato
Kiichi Yasumoto, eldest brother
Kayo Matsuo
Yoshiko, eldest sister
Takeshi Okimura
Koichi, Nianchan
Akiko Maeda
Sueko, younger sister
Kō Nishimura
Goro Mitamura
Yoshio Ōmori
Seki
Taiji Tonoyama
Hemmi Gengoro
Shinsuke Ashida
Sakai
Tanie Kitabayashi
Skin64%
血と骨66%
楢山節考74%
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In the Family67%
Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl72%
Holy Lands61%
What Maisie Knew71%
Bastard Out of Carolina71%
Starving in Suburbia65%
Babylon69%
Salomé62%
Normal66%
La joven69%
167%
Little Lord Fauntleroy73%
Hardball65%
Cardboard Boxer63%
Heidi76%
Girl in the Box67%
