Gaijin: Roads to Freedom

Gaijin: Roads to Freedom (Portuguese: Gaijin – Caminhos da Liberdade), also known as Gaijin, a Brazilian Odyssey,[1] is a 1980 Brazilian drama film, the debut film of director Tizuka Yamasaki.[2]

Gaijin: Roads to Freedom
Directed byTizuka Yamasaki
Written by
  • Tizuka Yamasaki
  • Jorge Durán
Starring
CinematographyEdgar Moura
Edited by
Music byJohn Neschling
Production
company
Ponto Filmes
Distributed byEmbrafilme
Release date
Running time
112 minutes
CountryBrazil
Languages
  • Portuguese
  • Japanese

The film is based on real events in the history of Japanese immigrants who came to Brazil in search of better opportunities.[3] Its sequel, Gaijin 2: Love Me As I Am, was released on September 2, 2005.

Plot

Japan, 1908. Motivated by poverty in the country and few job prospects, many Japanese have emigrated in search of opportunities. As the emigration company only accepted family groups who had at least a couple, Yamada (Jiro Kawarazaki) and Kobayashi (Keniti Kaneko) who were brothers, see as solution that Yamada would marry Titoe (Kyoko Tsukamoto), who was only 16 years old. Yamada and Titoe had just met and, along with a cousin, they depart to Brazil. After 52 days of travel they finally arrive in Brazil where they will work in Santa Rosa farm, in São Paulo, where the coffee expansion was intense. But they stumble upon a foreman who handles settlers with hostility, demanding them to work to exhaustion. In addition their wages are stolen by the owners of the farm, only being treated with respect by other settlers and by Tonho (Antônio Fagundes), the accountant of the farm.[4]

Cast
  • Kyoko Tsukamoto as Titoe
  • Antônio Fagundes as Tonho
  • Jiro Kawarazaki as Yamada
  • Keniti Kaneko as Kobayashi
  • Gianfrancesco Guarnieri as Enrico
  • Álvaro Freire as Chico Santos
  • Louise Cardoso as Angelina
  • José Dumont as Ceará
  • Yuriko Oguri as Mrs. Nakano
  • Clarisse Abujamra as Felícia
  • Carlos Augusto Strazzer as Dr. Heitor
  • Dorothy Leirner as Grazziela
  • Maiku Kozonoi as Keniti Nakano

References
  1. Canby, Vincent (June 17, 1981). "'Gaijin,' Travail of Japanese settlers in Brazil". The New York Times. Retrieved March 4, 2014.
  2. "Gaijin - Caminhos da Liberdade: Curiosidades".
  3. "Filme - Gaijin - Os Caminhos da Liberdade - 1980".
  4. "Gaijin - Caminhos da Liberdade".
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