Dir. Kaori Flores Yonekura

Nuevo Objetivo Film / Mullu Producciones:

With the support of: CNAC, IBERMEDIA.

Documentary. Feature film. 2011. Coproduction: Venezuela - Peru - Japan.

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Synopsis: The search for identity. Cultures crossing continents. In Nikkei, director Kaori Flores Yonekura tells the story of her grandparents’ intrepid journey from Japan to Peru to Venezuela. Along the way, their personal search for a new home is set against the larger backdrop of the history of Japanese immigration to Latin America: from servitude in Peru, to the anti-Japanese media campaigns in World War II, to propaganda and promises of a better life in Venezuela. Nikkei is a fascinating and artfully constructed documentary that uses a personal testimony to reconstruct a subject of Latin American history.

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Festivals/Awards: Latin American Film Fest. of Philadelphia, Ibero-American Film Fest. of Santiago de Chile, Maria Lionza International Film Fest (Best film award), Venezuelan Film Fest. in New York, Film and Human Rights Fest. (Best film award), Festival of spirituality in Venezuelan cinema (SIGNIS award and Best film award), Vancouver Latin American Film Fest., Cinemaissi, Latin American Helsinki Film Fest., Iberoamerican Documentary Memory Festival, Cinesul International Film and Video Fest., Cine Las Américas Int. Film Festival, Guadalajara International Film Festival, Lima Internaional Film Fest., Documenta Caracas - Doc Andino Award, AtlantiDoc, International Film Fest. Ícaro. (... More).

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We have licenses available for Universities and cultural institutions. Have been acquired by Japan House London, Japanese American Museum of Los Angeles, UMBC, Columbia University in the City of New York, Princeton University Library, Rutgers University Libraries, University of Pittsburgh, Boston College,, Harvard University, Wellesley College, Bates College Library, University of Michigan, Michigan State University Libraries, University of Chicago Library, University of Wisconsin - Madison, General Library System, University of Nebraska Omaha, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, University of Colorado Boulder, University of California, Irvine, University of Southern California, Virginia University and more.