Shiro Kawai

Shiro Kawai

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Shiro Kawai

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Down on the Sidewalk in Waikiki
Japanese Businessman
In between growing frustrations toward cleaning up after an endless parade of tourists and reflections on a traumatizing memory, a voice rises from within a soft-spoken Hawaiian janitor down on the sidewalk in Waikiki. This narrative short film is inspired by a collection of poetry published posthumously featuring the work of Kānaka Maoli poet Wayne Kaumualii Westlake (1947-84).
Todo por Grace
Koji
Hawai, 1920. Un médico recién llegado al pueblo encuentra a un niño huérfano de origen asiático, al que decide adoptar y criar bajo los conocimientos de la medicina, para que algún día ejerza la profesión junto a él. Cuando es apenas un niño, aunque muy ágil y veloz, su misión es llevar corriendo las medicinas a los trabajadores de los cafetales que están enfermos. Años después, Jo acude junto al médico a la casa de un hombre adinerado, dueño de las plantaciones de café de la región, para atender a su hija Grace, una hermosa joven a la que ha visto crecer desde que era un niño y de la que lleva secretamente enamorado todos estos años. Sin embargo, el padre de Grace no verá con buenos ojos esa relación y hará todo lo posible por separarles, trayendo al pueblo a otro médico de la capital, al que intentará casar con su hija.
Go for Broke
Maehara
During the tumultuous year after the attack on Pearl Harbor, a group of University of Hawaii ROTC students navigate wartime Hawaii and fight discrimination.
The Cleaner and the Deadman
Yoshio
Two contract killers are hired by competing cartels to hunt down an elusive drug scientist. The scientist escapes, leading to a globetrotting chase and fight for survival.
Lāhainā Noon
Saiichi
Lāhainā Noon interweaves three separate short stories that occur during the yearly tropical solar phenomenon in which the sun passes directly overhead at noon so that upright objects do not cast a shadow.
Under the Blood-Red Sun
Sanji
December 7, 1941 - TOMIKAZU “TOMI” NAKAJI (Kyler Ki Sakamoto) and his best friend BILLY DAVIS (Kalama Epstein) are playing baseball in a field near their homes in Hawaii when Japan launches a surprise attack on the US at Pearl Harbor. As Tomi looks up at the sky and recognizes the Blood-Red Sun emblem on the fighter planes, he knows that his life has changed forever. Based on actual events, Under the Blood-Red Sun is an unforgettable story of friendship, courage and survival.