My Second Brother

Name: My Second Brother
Director: Shōhei Imamura
Released: 1959
Duration: 101 min
Rating: 6.9
Cast: Hiroyuki Nagato, Kayo Matsuo, Takeshi Okimura, Akiko Maeda, Kô Nishimura

1959 · 101 MIN · IMDB 6.9 · 273 VOTES · DIR. Shōhei Imamura

Overview

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.

Dialogue Timeline — 1,434 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:00:28 right after the second world war

00:07:00 Now we report on the policy of the coal mines

00:11:37 just give us bit by bit will do

00:14:38 You eat so much!

00:17:23 Come in

00:22:48 make this the compensation

00:26:42 From today all coupons will be discounted by 50%

00:29:33 You just take care of this

00:34:19 Sueko, Koichi

00:38:32 Sleep

00:43:04 Sueko, what have you done at school?

00:46:24 It will be very bad if not hurry up

00:49:29 total is 210 yen

00:52:41 Just one stuck in the city

00:57:34 Don't wait, Yasumoto

01:02:40 Really very pitiful

01:06:16 Big Brother just brings us to look for a home

01:13:29 Just hold on

01:17:06 Oh flower

01:22:08 Nobody tells me this

01:27:37 so tired

01:31:46 We won't see each other for the time being

01:36:23 I don't know

20:00:00 unemployed in this coal mining village

Cast & Characters

Hiroyuki Nagato Kiichi Yasumoto, eldest brother Kayo Matsuo Yoshiko, eldest sister Takeshi Okimura Koichi, Nianchan Akiko Maeda Sueko, younger sister Kô Nishimura Goro Mitamura Yoshio Ômori Seki Taiji Tonoyama Hemmi Gengoro Shinsuke Ashida Sakai Tanie Kitabayashi Hamae Enoki

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,434

Dialogue density14.2 lines / min

First line00:00:28

Final line20:00:00

Production Record

DirectorShōhei Imamura

LanguageJapanese

IMDb votes273