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.
Language
Japanese
Release Date
June 30, 1979
Cast
Shinobu Otake
Mieko Harada
Chikako Yuri
Yuko Kotegawa
Takeo Chii
Shinichirō Mikami
Koji Moritsugu
Makoto Akatsuka
Sen Yamamoto
Hōsei Komatsu
Akihiko Hirata
Sanae Nakahara
Mari Okamoto
Ako Asano
Kyoko Tsuda
Tanie Kitabayashi
Kō Nishimura
Rentaro Mikuni
Mizuho Suzuki
Narrator (voice)
Akiko Shikata
Kuniko Ishii
Sada Matsumoto
Yasuko Sanjo
Miwa Saitô
Tatsu Nakamura
Akiko Nomura
Moto Masai
Hiroko Machida
Imari Tsuji
Hideo Fukuhara
Kiku's father
Takashi Ebata
Fujio Nagahama
Hiroshi Kiyama
Akira Kimura
Kōjirō Kusanagi
Tadayoshi Ueda
Saburo Satoki
Matchmaker
Matabe Watabe
Kikugoro Masai
Toshitaka Itō
Katsuhiro Oyama
Toshizō Kudō
Shin Tonomura
Michio Inoue
Yoshihiko Tabata
Masanori Irie
Megumi Ayukawa
Rie Arai
Yuko Setsu
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