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Summary
Violinist and songwriter Kishi Bashi travels on a musical journey to understand WWII era Japanese Incarceration, assimilation, and what it means to be a minority in America today.
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Critics vs audiences
Critics like it more than audiences (+11)
Critics 100Audiences 89GoodWatch 93
Tomatometer100%
Audience score94%
IMDb8.3
Running time
1 h 14 min
Shorter than 9 in 10 documentaries, −22 min on the typical 96
typical 9674Half of all documentaries run 89–107 min.
Reach
Streams in 27 countries
+17Released
2022
March 14, 2022
4 years ago
Genres
DocumentaryMusicLanguage
English
Original language
Made in
United States
Directing · 2
- Justin Taylor Smith Director, Producer, Additional Photography, Aerial Camera, Editor
- Kishi Bashi Director, Writer, Producer, Additional Photography, Music
Writing · 3
- Elisa Bonora Story Consultant, Additional Editing
- Avela Grenier Story Consultant
- Anthony August Story Consultant
Production · 25
- Sheila Nevins Executive Producer
- Ryan Suffern Executive Producer
- Nina L. Diaz Executive Producer
- Jim Angelo Executive Producer, Producer
- Drew Wallin Executive Producer
- Zak Kilberg Executive Producer
Camera · 4
- Andy Bardon Additional Photography, Still Photographer
- Ari Beser Additional Photography
- Jerry Riciotti Additional Photography
- Hallie Swain Additional Photography
Editing · 14
- Khoren Mirzakhanian Editor
- Misha Aranyshev Editor
- Kerry Michelle O'Brien Editor
- Lewis Rapkin Supervising Editor
- Luke Cahill Colorist
- Jason Vo Assistant Editor
Sound · 11
- Nathan Nance Supervising Sound Editor
- Cody Engstrom Sound Engineer
- Shuling Yong Sound Mixer
- Tony Villaflor Sound Mixer
- Steven Bechtold Sound Mixer
- Robert Cooper Assistant Sound Engineer
Art · 9
- Heather Lynn Aquino Creative Director, Art Direction, Graphic Designer
- Sam Hyken Art Direction
- Steve Villari Graphic Designer
- Jacomo Bairos Art Direction
- Daryn Wakasa Creative Director, Graphic Designer, Creative Consultant
- Hieu Vu Graphic Designer
Other crew · 1
- Carrie Perry Manager of Operations
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