Nomugi Pass (1979)
2h 34m
Running Time
June 30, 1979Release Date
Nomugi Pass (1979)
2h 34m
Running Time
June 30, 1979Release Date
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Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.
Shinobu Otake
Mine Masai
Mieko Harada
Yuki Shinoda
Chikako Yuri
Hana Mishima
Yuko Kotegawa
Kiku Shoji
Satsuo Yamamoto
Director
Shigemi Yamamoto
Writer
Takero Itō
Producer
Tokuko Miyako
Producer
Masaru Satō
Composer
Mizuho Suzuki
Narrator (voice)
Kuniko Ishii
Sada Matsumoto
Akiko Nomura
Moto Masai
Hideo Fukuhara
Kiku's father
Saburo Satoki
Matchmaker
Matabe Watabe
Kikugoro Masai
Kei Hattori
Screenplay
Setsuo Kobayashi
Director of Photography
Shigeo Mano
Art Direction
Toshio Goto
Assistant Director
Jun Nabeshima
Editor
Shin Watarai
Sound Recordist
Kazuo Shimomura
Lighting Technician
Kanji Mochimaru
Executive Producer
Yuko Setsu
Hiroko Machida
Akihiko Hirata
Hōsei Komatsu
Sen Yamamoto
Makoto Akatsuka
Kōjirō Kusanagi
Takashi Ebata
Fujio Nagahama
Hiroshi Kiyama
Akira Kimura
Katsuhiro Oyama
Toshizō Kudō
Shin Tonomura
Michio Inoue
Yoshihiko Tabata
Masanori Irie
Details.
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Wiki.
Nomugi Pass (あゝ野麦峠, Ah, Nomugi Pass) is a 1979 Japanese film directed by Satsuo Yamamoto.