Dirty Hearts (Corações Sujos): Japanese Resistance in Brazil.

With the participation of the actors Tsuyoshi Ihara (Takahashi), Takako Tokiwawi (Miyuki), Eiji Okuda (Coronel Watanabe), Celine Fukumoto (Akemi) and Eduardo Moscovis (Sub delegate), Brazilian director Vicente Amorin brings to film the 2011 version of the Fernando Morais novel Corações Sujos (2000). The plot revolves around the real story behind Shindo Renmei, a Japanese terrorist group living in Brazil. Towards the end of the Second World War, many Japanese immigrants rejected Emperor Hirohito's surrender to the allied forces. Both the novel as well as the film show a different aspect of how Japanese culture is viewed by Japanese members and Brazilians during the Getulio Vargas presidency in the forties. In 1945 as Japan surrendered to the United States and the Second World War found its end, a large number of Japanese in Brazil believed that Japanese defeat was merely American political propaganda. In this context, the analysis of Corações Sujos, in both novel and film versions, allows one to see how violence symbolizes the past and at the same time becomes a search for answers in the identity dilemma: those who stood by their inconditional love for the Emperor and while “fighting” the Brazilian system, and those who accepted the defeat and started to make Brazil their home. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]