Even worse, the community itself becomes divided into two groups: those who accept the defeat and those who do not. Set in São Paulo, the Japanese immigrants are treated like second-class citizens by the native Brazilians. It’s a powerful story about a part of history many people don’t know – the chaos in Brazil’s sizable Japanese immigrant population in the 1940s following Japan’s World War II loss. One of the producers was Oliver Kwon, a Harvard Business School classmate. Based on the novel by Fernando Morais, the film was directed by Brazilian filmmaker Vicente Amorim and featured Tsuyoshi Ihara, Takako Tokiwa and Eduardo Moscovis. It was a part of the 10th annual Premiere Brazil! festival. premiere of Corações Sujos (Dirty Hearts) at the Museum of Modern Art. FILM: On Friday, July 13th, 2012, I went to the U.S.
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