is a 1959

1959 in film

The year 1959 in film involved some significant events, with Ben-Hur winning a record 11 Academy Awards.-Events:* The Three Stooges make their 190th and last short film, Sappy Bull Fighters....

 Japanese film

Cinema of Japan

The has a history that spans more than 100 years. Japan has one of the oldest and largest film industries in the world – as of 2009 the fourth largest by number of feature films produced. Movies have been produced in Japan since 1897, when the first foreign cameramen arrived...

 by director Shohei Imamura.

Plot

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
  Hiroyuki Nagato
  was a Japanese actor.Nagato was born in Kyoto. He starred in Season of the Sun, Endless Desire, My Second Brother, Stolen Desire, and Sukeban Deka, and Yo-Yo Girl Cop. He died in Tokyo on May 21, 2011....
  
   - Kiichi Yasumoto, eldest brother
• Kayo Matsuo
  Kayo Matsuo
  is a Japanese actress. She retired from acting following the Kobe earthquake.-Partial filmography:# Endless Desire # My Second Brother # Hikaru umi...
  
   - Yoshiko, eldest sister
• Takeshi Okimura - Koichi, Nianchan
• Akiko Maeda - Sueko, younger sister
• Kô Nishimura
  Kô Nishimura
  was a Japanese actor who appeared in supporting roles in such films as Akira Kurosawa's The Bad Sleep Well and Yojimbo, Kihachi Okamoto's Sword of Doom, Yoshitaro Nomura's Zero Focus, and Kon Ichikawa's The Burmese Harp .-Film:* The Burmese Harp *Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate（1957）*The...
  
   - Goro Mitamura
• Yoshio Omori - Seki
• Taiji Tonoyama - Hemmi Gengoro
• Shinsuke Ashida - Sakai

Wins

• Mainichi Film Award – Best Supporting Actress, Best Sound
• Blue Ribbon Awards
  Blue Ribbon Awards
  The are film-specific prizes awarded solely by movie critics and writers in Tokyo, Japan.The awards were established in 1950 by which is composed of film correspondents from seven Tokyo-based sports newspapers...
  
   – Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor

Nominations

• Berlin Film Festival
  10th Berlin International Film Festival
  The 10th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 24 June to 5 July 1960.-Jury:* Harold Lloyd * Georges Auric* Henry Reed* Sohrab Modi* Floris Luigi Ammannati* Hidemi Ima* Joaquín de Entrambasaguas* Frank Wisbar...
  
   – Golden Bear
  Golden Bear
  According to legend, the Golden Bear was a large golden Ursus arctos. Members of the Ursus arctos species can reach masses of . The Grizzly Bear and the Kodiak Bear are North American subspecies of the Brown Bear....
  
  

External links

• John Lie, "Zainichi Recognitions: Japan’s Korean Residents’ Ideology and Its Discontents." The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus.
  The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
  The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, founded in 2004 as Japan Focus, is an open access, peer reviewed academic journal which explores the forces shaping the Asia-Pacific region and the world. Published weekly, its coverage spans geopolitics, history, economics, society, culture, and international...
  
  
• http://www.japanfocus.org/-John-Lie/2939

Adapted from chapter four of Zainichi (Koreans in Japan): Diasporic Nationalism and Postcolonial Identity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008). Accessed April 4, 2009.