Yamato (California) (2016)

Director
Daisuke Miyazaki

Main cast
Nina Endo; Hanae Kan; Reiko Kataoka; Mayumi Katô; Masayuki Shionoya

Genres


Description
SAKURA is a moody teenage girl who lives close to the US military base in the city of Yamato, Japan. She is struggling everyday to become a rapper like the American rappers she admire but always got stage frighten when she sang in front of an audience. One day, her mother's American soldier boyfriend's daughter REI comes from California to visit her family.


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