DEVELOPMENT & PRESS

Okaeri: The Spy of the Rising Sun was selected for the 2026 Berlinale Talents Guadalajara – Talents Project Market. As part of the program, the project received mentorship focused on international pitching and industry strategies, culminating in a live pitch presentation before a jury composed of leading production and post-production companies from across Latin America. We are deeply honored that Okaeri received the following industry awards during the market: 2.35 Digital A

The Nikkei project was one of five winners of the Fiction Project Competition in the National Feature Film Production category (New Filmmakers), organized by the Ministry of Culture of Peru. Okaeri: The Spy of the Rising Sun has been awarded production funding through the 2025 Economic Stimuli for Cinematographic and Audiovisual Activity, an initiative of the Ministry of Culture of Peru. The project was evaluated and selected unanimously by the jury, which stated: “Through a

Kyodai Magazine, a leading publication for the global Nikkei community, recently featured Okaeri: The Spy from the Rising Sun in its 234 edition (July-September 2025 issue) in an in-depth interview titled "Okaeri: The memories back" by Eduardo Azato Shimabukuro. The piece highlights Okaeri as the first Peruvian feature film to revisit the little-known wartime history of Japanese Peruvians, underscoring its emotional and historical resonance. Author Eduardo Azato opens with th

El Comercio, one of Peru’s most prominent newspapers, recently featured Okaeri: The Spy from the Rising Sun, describing the project as a landmark in the country’s cinematic landscape. The article underscores Okaeri as the first historical fiction film in Peru to center on the Nikkei community, bringing visibility to a chapter of national history that has long remained in the shadows. With a carefully constructed cinematic approach and a deeply human narrative, Okaeri explores

Discover Nikkei, the international platform dedicated to documenting and exploring the experiences of Japanese communities around the world, recently published an article about the upcoming Peruvian feature film Okaeri: The Spy of the Rising Sun. Written by Hiro Ramos Nako, the piece offers an in-depth reflection on the film’s narrative and historical foundations. The article traces the little-known history of the Japanese Peruvian community during World War II — particularly

The project was selected to participate in the second group of the International Screenwriting Lab "LabGuion" organized by the Cinefilia Corporation in Colombia with the financial support of an Ibermedia Program scholarship. In 2024, Peruvian screenwriter and director Camila Murayama was selected to participate in the prestigious 12th edition of LabGuion, the International Screenwriting Lab organized by the Colombian organization Cinefilia and the Ibermedia Program. Chosen fr

"Cinema with Kimochi, the history of the Peruvian Nikkei Community and its adaptation to the big screen" was an event organized by the Peruvian Japanese Association, held at the Peruvian Japanese Cultural Center. The panel discussion included Camila Murayama Tagami (writer and director of "Okaeri"), Caroline Gibu (cultural promoter) and Fernando Nakasone (investigator). The three of them explored the history of the Japanese immigration in Peru, the cultural significance of o

The Nikkei project was one of the 13 winners of the National Feature Film Development Competition, organized by the Peruvian Ministry of Culture. "Okaeri: the Spy of the Rising Sun" won a fund of 40,000 PEN for its development process thanks to the Peruvian Ministry of Culture's National Feature Film Development Competition initiative. The project was evaluated and selected unanimously by the jury, whose evaluation read as follows: "For addressing a family story marked by var

The project submitted as the writer and director's final thesis for the Master's Degree in Screenwriting at the International University of Valencia was approved with an outstanding grade. Below, the asbtrat of the paper. Abstrat This Master's Thesis delves deeply into the cinematic genre of based-on-true-events films. It analyzes the different nature, tools, and approaches used in crafting screenplays aimed to capture the essence of historical events and real-life experience

"Okaeri" is selected to participate with 11 other projects in the Feature Film Development Workshop organized by the Peruvian Ministry of Culture. The Ministry of Culture of Peru, through the Directorate of Audiovisual, Phonography and New Media (DAFO), organized a new edition of the “Feature Film Project Workshop” as part of the Conecta Service. This edition was exclusively aimed at Peruvian women filmmakers. The workshop’s objective was to strengthen the creative, narrative