Through the Night

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.

2002

2h 13min

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Top Billed Cast

風吹ジュン
不破万作
Kô Hiroshima
唐十郎
樹木希林
清川虹子
六平直政
仁科貴
奥田瑛二
李麗仙
山田純大
山本太郎
油井昌由樹
大久保鷹

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