Nomugi Pass
154 mins
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.
Ako Asano
Hirai - Toki
Kuniko Ishii
Sada Matsumoto
Hideo Fukuhara
Kiku's father
Saburo Satoki
Matchmaker
Matabe Watabe
Kikugoro Masai
Toshio Goto
Assistant Director
Takero Itō
Producer
Shigemi Yamamoto
Original Story
Shigeo Mano
Art Direction
Setsuo Kobayashi
Director of Photography
Shin Watarai
Sound Recordist
Tokuko Miyako
Producer
Kei Hattori
Screenplay
Kazuo Shimomura
Lighting Technician
Kanji Mochimaru
Executive Producer
Jun Nabeshima
Editor