Through the Night

2002•2h 13m

Drama

When poverty-stricken Korean-Japanese (Zainichi) discover there is valuable iron ore in the rubble of a destroyed shantytown they plan to haul it out for profit. Amidst this plan there is discrimination, war and an infatuation between a man and a woman, but like everything around them there and owing to the forces around them, there is as much chance that these may burn to ashes and be destroyed or be the beginning of something new.

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Cast

Jun Fubuki

Mansaku Fuwa

Kô Hiroshima

Juro Kara

Kirin Kiki

Nijiko Kiyokawa

Naomasa Musaka

Takashi Nishina

Eiji Okuda

Reisen Ri

Jundai Yamada

Taro Yamamoto

Masayuki Yui

Taka Okubo

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