Omoiyari | movie | 2022 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Violinist and songwriter Kishi Bashi travels on a musical journey to understand WWII era Japanese Incarceration, assimil | dG1fVWlwcUNtRVpYd1k

Transcript

00:00 (music)

00:02 My musician name is Kishi Bashi, but my full name is Kaoru Makishi Ishibashi.

00:09 I've always been a proud American, but lately I've started feeling afraid.

00:13 I've been hearing a lot of hate speech.

00:15 I felt like I needed to speak up.

00:17 And then it kind of hit me.

00:19 I could write songs.

00:21 (music)

00:25 The United States of America was suddenly attacked by the Empire of Japan.

00:31 During World War II, the U.S. government rounded up 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry

00:36 and put them in concentration camps.

00:38 I wanted to see what had actually happened back then.

00:40 (music)

00:42 I was only a little kid, four years old.

00:44 As we pulled out, I can remember my father saying goodbye.

00:48 (music)

00:50 Forced removals, family separation, and mass incarcerations.

00:54 When will we stop repeating history?

00:56 (music)

00:59 "Omoiyari" is a Japanese word that means to have empathy and compassion for another.

01:03 (music)

01:05 We say enough and enough is today.

01:07 I wanted my daughter to be proud of where we had come from.

01:10 "Omoiyari."

01:11 I wanted that for myself too.

01:13 "Omoiyari."

01:14 (music)

01:17 In the end, we all want the same thing.

01:20 "Omoiyari."

01:22 Happiness.

01:23 (music)