"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

"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