Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan

Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan

117 mins | Drama | March 29, 1959

Kiku and her brother Isamu are social outcasts, children of a prostitute mother and black GI father, in postwar Japan.

Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan

117 mins | Drama | March 29, 1959

Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
Kiku and her brother Isamu are social outcasts, children of a prostitute mother and black GI father, in postwar Japan.
Producers Daito Eiga Co., Ltd.
Original title キクとイサム
Directors Yuten Tachibana, Tadashi Imai
Writers Yoko Mizuki

Cast

Emiko Takahashi

as Kiku Kawada

George Okunoyama

as Isamu Kawada

Tanie Kitabayashi

as Grandma Shigeko

Koji Kiyomura

as Seijiro

Aiko Asahina

as Kimie

Kōji Mitsui

as Shopkeeper

Toshio Takahara

as Newspaperman B

Teruko Kishi

as Okatsu

Natsuko Kahara

as Miko

Osamu Takizawa

as Man with camera

Eijirō Tōno

as Policeman

Rentaro Mikuni

as Newspaperman A