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Gaijin - Ama-me Como Sou (2005)
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Tizuka Yamasaki (writer)
Release Date:
2 September 2005 (Brazil)
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In 1908, Titoe leaves her country, Japan, to try her luck in Brazil. Her intention is just to get rich and return in five years. But life has other plans for her. | add synopsis
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Cast
(Credited cast) | Tamlyn Tomita | ... | Maria Yamashita Salinas |
| Jorge Perugorría | ... | Gabriel Salinas |
| Aya Ono | ... | Titoe (old) |
| Louise Cardoso | ... | Sofia Salinas |
| Zezé Polessa | ... | Gina Salinas |
| Luís Melo | ... | Ramon Salinas |
| Mariana Ximenes | ... | Weronika Muller |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Kassia Lumi Abe | ... | Young Shinobu |
| Ilya Akiyoshi | ... | Young Pedro |
| Aparecido | ... | Xetá |
| Apollo | ... | Priest |
| Isadora Barion | ... | Gina Salinas (child) |
| Paulo Castro | ... | Guará |
| Lissa Diniz | ... | Yoko Salinas |
| Pedro Diniz | ... | Young Pedro |
 | Pedro Diniz | ... | Pedro (Child) |
| Thaís do Carmo | ... | Blonde girl |
| Dado Dolabella | ... | Brother |
| Michelle Ekune | ... | Snake girl |
| Atsumi Iwakiri | ... | Japonese manager |
| Keniti Kaneko | ... | Jiro Kobayashi |
 | Felipe Kannenberg | ... | Georg Müller |
| Gori Koike | ... | Kiyomoto-san leader |
| Kissei Kumamoto | ... | Sensei Yamashita |
| Maurício Souza Lima | ... | Spanish driver |
| Miwa Marayama | ... | Teacher |
| Poka Marques | ... | Policeman |
| Juliana Matsumoto | ... | Batyan (child) |
 | Nobu McCarthy | ... | Shinobu Senhora |
| Francine Missaka | ... | Singer |
| Vitor Mity | ... | Lucas |
| Emilia Miyazaki | ... | Sueko |
| Ralf Muller | ... | German |
| Lucas Muragucchi | ... | Lucas |
| Eda Nagayama | ... | Shinobu Jovem |
| Tiemi Ono | ... | Marília |
 | Eijiro Ozaki | ... | Kunihilo |
| Domingos Pellegrini Júnior | ... | Farmer (as Domingos Pellegrini) |
| Sílvio Pozzato | ... | Italian photographer |
| Minoru Sasahara | ... | Nikkey leader |
| Ryugo Sugimoto | ... | Ken |
| Pamela Takahara | ... | Lumi |
| Carlos Takeshi | ... | Vicente |
| Fábia Tanabe | ... | Singer |
| Renata Tan | ... | Singer |
| Naina Tie | ... | Yoko (child) |
| Kyoko Tsukamoto | ... | Titoe (young) |
| Fabiano Takeo Tsutsui | ... | Kazumi (child) |
| Stephanie Vasconcelos | ... | Brazilian girl |
| Naiara Watanabe | ... | Lumi |
| Fausto Kendi Yamai | ... | Ujihara |
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Follows Gaijin - Os Caminhos da Liberdade (1980)
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I didn't see the first Brazilian film "Gaijin, a Brazilian Odyssey," nor did I know what Gaijin means before I went to this screening. I was pleasantly surprised by this Brazilian sequel "Gaijin 2: Love Me As I Am" (Gaijin - Ama-me Como Sou).
"Gaijin" means foreigners in Japanese. "Gaijin 2: Love Me As I Am" tells an unforgettable story about Japanese immigrants in Brazil, covering several decades and four generations.
In 1908, Titoe came to Brazil from Japan, but she never thought that she would not return to Japan until she already has her great grand children. Over the years, they struggled to survive the war and the environment, to gain acceptance, to hold on to the community and Japanese heritage, to cope with the culture clash, and to overcome the prejudice toward "Gaijin." By the third generation, Titoe 's granddaughter Maria crossed the racial line and married to a Brazilian man Gabriel. The landscape begins to change because now Gabriel becomes the one who is trying to gain acceptance by the Japanese family and becomes a "gaijin." What makes this film's theme is so universal is that the story is not just about Japanese immigrants in Brazil, every ethnic group of immigrants can relate to those character's experiences with their own journey in a foreign land. I really enjoy Titoe's character and the performance of that 83 years old actress who is incredibly funny and moving.