72SSIFF - 20/28 September 2024
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Gaijin - Os caminhos da liberdade / Gaijin, A Brazilian Odyssey

Tizuka Yamasaki
Brazil
Synopsis
Gaijin (?foreigner? in Japanese) follows the journey made by the director?s grandmother from Japan to Brazil, where immigrants were lured to work in the coffee plantations. Years later, Japan faced such a shortage of labour that it was forced to open its doors to immigrants of Japanese ancestry. But when the Japanese-Brazilians returned to their homeland, they found themselves being treated like foreigners.
Director
Tizuka Yamasaki (Brazil)
Screenplay
Jorge Durán, Tizuka Yamasaki
Photography
Edgar Moura
Edition
Vera Freire, Lael Rodrigues
Music
John Neschling
Cast
Kyoko Tsukamoto, Antônio Fagundes, Jiro Kawarazaki, Gianfrancesco Guarnieri, Alvaro Freire
Running Time
112 m.
Country
Brazil
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