This documentary will be shown Saturday afternoon at 4:10 PM. This is part of the East Asian Citizen Coexistence Film Festival being held at Kumamoto Gakuen University.
Here’s a summary of the documentary from the International Movie Database:
“This film unveils a hidden history starting in the Dutch East Indies under Japanese occupation during WW2. The protagonists were born of Eurasian (some local) mothers and Japanese fathers as children of the enemy. They moved to the Netherlands with their mothers, while their fathers went back to Japan after the war. The absence of their fathers becomes a missing piece in their lives, and the ensuing search stretches across continents. One of the protagonists, Nippy Noya, is an international percussionist, recording with John McLaughlin and touring with Billy Cobham and Chaka Khan. He discovers the secret of his musical gift as the other protagonists each experience their own emotional rebirth.”
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4147990/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl
This film is mostly in English with Japanese subtitles but there are sections (about 10% according to the organizer of the festival) that are in Japanese.
Yesterday, I posted about a documentary to be shown in the morning called “The True Cost”:
https://www.facebook.com/Kumamotoi/posts/1627388270667932
That post has more information about the film festival.f
– Kirk
