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.

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Cast

Hiroyuki Nagato

Kiichi Yasumoto, eldest brother

Kayo Matsuo

Yoshiko, eldest sister

Kō Nishimura

Goro Mitamura

Taiji Tonoyama

Hemmi Gengoro

Shinsuke Ashida

Sakai

Tanie Kitabayashi

Chigusa Takayama

Hitoshi Takagi

Shoichi Ozawa

Jun Hamamura

Hisano Yamaoka

Hideji Ōtaki