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Nomugi Pass

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Calorie Rating: 216
Released: 1979-06-30
Running Time: 154 Minutes


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.

Director / Directors

Toshio Goto
Assistant Director


Cast







Mizuho Suzuki
Character: Narrator (voice)
Kuniko Ishii
Character: Sada Matsumoto


Akiko Nomura
Character: Moto Masai

Hideo Fukuhara
Character: Kiku's father


Saburo Satoki
Character: Matchmaker
Matabe Watabe
Character: Kikugoro Masai






Production and Crew

Shigemi Yamamoto
Original Story
Kei Hattori
Screenplay
Kanji Mochimaru
Executive Producer

Takero Itō
Producer
Setsuo Kobayashi
Director of Photography

Shigeo Mano
Art Direction
Masaru Satō
Original Music Composer
Shin Watarai
Sound Recordist

Kazuo Shimomura
Lighting Technician