Nomugi Pass (1979)

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 (46)CrewGenresDetailsReleasesMediaAwards

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

A

Ako Asano

Hirai - Toki

K

Kyoko Tsuda

Tanie Kitabayashi

Kō Nishimura

Rentaro Mikuni

Mizuho Suzuki

Narrator (voice)

A

Akiko Shikata

K

Kuniko Ishii

Sada Matsumoto

Yasuko Sanjo

M

Miwa Saitō

Tatsu Nakamura

Akiko Nomura

Moto Masai

Hiroko Machida

I

Imari Tsuji

H

Hideo Fukuhara

Kiku's father

Takashi Ebata

F

Fujio Nagahama

H

Hiroshi Kiyama

A

Akira Kimura

Kōjirō Kusanagi

T

Tadayoshi Ueda

S

Saburo Satoki

Matchmaker

M

Matabe Watabe

Kikugoro Masai

T

Toshitaka Itō

Katsuhiro Oyama

T

Toshizō Kudō

S

Shin Tonomura

M

Michio Inoue

Y

Yoshihiko Tabata

M

Masanori Irie

M

Megumi Ayukawa

R

Rie Arai

Y

Yuko Setsu

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