My Second Brother (1959)

Shōhei Imamura · 101 min · Letterboxd ↗

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.

My Second Brother screens once in London: ICA, Sunday 25 October at 14:30.