My Second Brother (1959)
- Original title
- にあんちゃん
- Directed by
- Shohei Imamura
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- Japan
- Runtime
- 1h 41m
- Rating
- 6.6 of 10 from 8 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
After their mother dies, a ten year old girl tries to hold her family together and raise her younger siblings. The story follows their daily struggles to survive in post-war Japan.
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What happens
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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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