Nomugi Pass

Nomugi Pass (1979)

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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: Satsuo Yamamoto
Writer: Kei Hattori

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

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