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Omoiyari | movie | 2022 | Official Trailer
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10/17/2023
Violinist and songwriter Kishi Bashi travels on a musical journey to understand WWII era Japanese Incarceration, assimil | dG1fVWlwcUNtRVpYd1k
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00:00
(music)
00:02
My musician name is Kishi Bashi, but my full name is Kaoru Makishi Ishibashi.
00:09
I've always been a proud American, but lately I've started feeling afraid.
00:13
I've been hearing a lot of hate speech.
00:15
I felt like I needed to speak up.
00:17
And then it kind of hit me.
00:19
I could write songs.
00:21
(music)
00:25
The United States of America was suddenly attacked by the Empire of Japan.
00:31
During World War II, the U.S. government rounded up 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry
00:36
and put them in concentration camps.
00:38
I wanted to see what had actually happened back then.
00:40
(music)
00:42
I was only a little kid, four years old.
00:44
As we pulled out, I can remember my father saying goodbye.
00:48
(music)
00:50
Forced removals, family separation, and mass incarcerations.
00:54
When will we stop repeating history?
00:56
(music)
00:59
"Omoiyari" is a Japanese word that means to have empathy and compassion for another.
01:03
(music)
01:05
We say enough and enough is today.
01:07
I wanted my daughter to be proud of where we had come from.
01:10
"Omoiyari."
01:11
I wanted that for myself too.
01:13
"Omoiyari."
01:14
(music)
01:17
In the end, we all want the same thing.
01:20
"Omoiyari."
01:22
Happiness.
01:23
(music)
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