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
