Gaijin: Roads to Freedom


Gaijin Roads to Freedom Portuguese Gaijin Caminhos da Liberdade also known as Gaijin, a Brazilian Odyssey is a 1980 Brazilian drama film, the debut film of director Tizuka Yamasaki.

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 onlyyears 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 So Paulo, where the coffee expansion was intense. But they stumble upon a foreman who handles hostile settlers, demanding to work to exhaustion. In addition they are stolen by the owners of the farm, only being treated with respect by other settlers and by Tonho Antnio Fagundes, the counter of the farm.

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