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.
as Kiichi Yasumoto, eldest brother
as Yoshiko, eldest sister
as Koichi, Nianchan
as Sueko, younger sister
as Goro Mitamura
as Seki
as Hemmi Gengoro
as Sakai
