"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