Movielogr
Nomugi Pass (1979)
Directed by Satsuo Yamamoto
Overview
The story of the silk industry and the young girls who worked as silk spinners in the early 1900s in Japan. The silk mills were located in Okaya which lies just beyond the Nomugi Pass. The women and girls worked in a hot, humid atmosphere without rest, and endured those conditions and sexual harassment to earn money for their poor families. Across the ocean, it was the great depression in America.
Length 154 minutes
Actors
Shinobu Ōtake | Mieko Harada | Chikako Yuri | Yûko Kotegawa | Takeo Chii | Shinichirô Mikami | Koji Moritsugu | Makoto Akatsuka | Sen Yamamoto | Hôsei Komatsu | Akihiko Hirata | Sanae Nakahara | Mari Okamoto | Ako Asano | Kyoko Tsuda | Tanie Kitabayashi | Kô Nishimura | Rentarô Mikuni | Mizuho Suzuki | Akiko Shikata | Kuniko Ishii | Yasuko Sanjo | Miwa Saitô | Tatsu Nakamura | Akiko Nomura | Hiroko Machida | Imari Tsuji | Hideo Fukuhara | Takashi Ebata | Fujio Nagahama | Hiroshi Kiyama | Akira Kimura | Kôjirô Kusanagi | Tadayoshi Ueda | Saburo Satoki | Matabe Watabe | Toshitaka Itô | Katsuhiro Oyama | Toshizô Kudô | Shin Tonomura | Michio Inoue | Yoshihiko Tabata | Masanori Irie | Megumi Ayukawa | Rie Arai | Yuko Setsu