Nomugi Pass (1979)
Overview
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.
Cast
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
Tanie Kitabayashi
Kō Nishimura
Rentaro Mikuni
Mizuho Suzuki
Narrator (voice)
