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.
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.
Hiroyuki Nagato , Kayo Matsuo , Kō Nishimura
Kimihiko Nakamura
Nikkatsu Corporation ,
as Kiichi Yasumoto, eldest brother
as Yoshiko, eldest sister
as Goro Mitamura
