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.
Hiroyuki Nagato
Kayo Matsuo
Takeshi Okimura
Akiko Maeda
Kō Nishimura
Yoshio Ōmori
Taiji Tonoyama
Shinsuke Ashida
Tanie Kitabayashi
Hideo Fukuhara
Chigusa Takayama
Hitoshi Takagi
Keiko Tanaka
Shoichi Ozawa
Yoshiko Maki
Imari Tsuji
Jun Hamamura
Hisano Yamaoka
Hideji Ōtaki
Akemi Kayo
Nobuo Kawakami
Bumon Kahara
Kōjirō Kusanagi
Michio Hino
Takanobu Hozumi
Kazuko Yoshiyuki
Teruko Kishi
Hideaki Nitani
Someshō Matsumoto
Toshio Takahara