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Artist Allegra Pacheco exhibits in an art exhibition the social problems represented in her documentary, this time from the angle of fine arts and multimedia
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“Tokyo Kurds” offers a little more warmth, mostly because it takes place in the outside world, though its characters could hardly be described as free.
Shot over the course of five years, the film centers on two Kurdish men on the cusp of adulthood. Both were brought to the country as children and chat with each other in fluent Japanese, though in other respects they’re quite different.
Ramazan, soft-spoken and delicate-featured, is trying to be a model citizen, and studying eagerly for college entrance exams with the hope of becoming an interpreter. Ozan, a tough, charismatic high-school dropout who looks like he’s been taking fashion pointers from Cristiano Ronaldo, is working off-the-books with a demolition crew.
Horrible hospitality : Detainees talk about reality of Japan immigration facility in film
July 2, 2021 (Mainichi Japan)
Foreigners on temporary release hold a press conference with Ian Thomas Ash (far right), director of the film Ushiku, in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, on May 20, 2021. The two have experienced long-term detention at an immigration facility. (Mainichi/Yukinao Kin) TOKYO It is still fresh in our minds that in March this year, a Sri Lankan woman who was in detention at the Nagoya Regional Immigration Services Bureau died without being able to receive the medical treatment she sought. What is going on in the closed rooms of Japan s immigration facilities? Ian Thomas Ash, a filmmaker from the United States, brought a small camera into a visiting room to make the documentary film Ushiku. What are the realities inside the immigration facility as told by the detainees?