Film

Nomugi Pass

1979 · 2h 34m · Drama · History

IMDb

7.3

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.

Shinobu Otake

Mieko Harada

Chikako Yuri

Yuko Kotegawa

Takeo Chii

Shinichirō Mikami

Kohji Moritsugu

Makoto Akatsuka

Sen Yamamoto

Hōsei Komatsu

Akihiko Hirata

Sanae Nakahara

Mari Okamoto

Ako Asano

Hirai - Toki

Kyoko Tsuda

Tanie Kitabayashi

• Satsuo YamamotoDirector
• Kei HattoriScreenplay
• Takero ItōProducer
• Tokuko MiyakoProducer
• Kanji MochimaruExecutive Producer
• Setsuo KobayashiDirector of Photography
• Masaru SatōOriginal Music Composer
• Jun NabeshimaEditor

Release date

June 30, 1979

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

2h 34m

Genres

Drama, History