Nomugi Pass

Nomugi Pass

154 mins | Drama | June 30, 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.

Nomugi Pass

154 mins | Drama | June 30, 1979

Nomugi Pass
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.
Producers
Original title あゝ野麦峠
Directors Satsuo Yamamoto
Writers Shigemi Yamamoto, Kei Hattori

Cast

Mizuho Suzuki

as Narrator (voice)

Kuniko Ishii

as Sada Matsumoto

Akiko Nomura

as Moto Masai

Hideo Fukuhara

as Kiku's father

Saburo Satoki

as Matchmaker

Matabe Watabe

as Kikugoro Masai