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The film that established Imamura's reputation by winning several awards - including, to Imamura's great embarrassment, the Education Minister's Prize - the rarely seen MY SECOND BROTHER is based on the diary of a ten-year-old Korean girl. (Contrast and compare to Oshima's classic BOY). Though occasionally reminiscent of Ozu (for whom Imamura worked as an assistant), it is characteristic Imamura in its harsh setting (the coal-mining town of Kyushu), its basis on a true story, and its celebration of the survival instincts of the impoverished and the outcast. The four children of a coalminer are forced upon their own resources when their father dies. Nianchan runs away to Tokyo, is apprehended and sent back, but retains his determination to succeed.
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