HAVANA, Cuba, Jun 14 (acn) The premiere of the Cuban-Japanese co-production ¨Ernesto, ¨winner of the Special Peace Award at the Hiroshima International Film Festival, took place yesterday at Havana´s Charles Chaplin movie-theater.
Junji Sakamoto, who won in 2000 the Best Director Award of the Japanese Film Academy, expressed his satisfaction with the filming process of the film by the Japanese company Kino Films and Cuba´s RTV Comercial, devoted to the 90th anniversary of the birth of Commander Ernesto Guevara.
He said that the film is titled Ernesto, nom de guerre of Freddy Maymura, a young Bolivian man, son of Japanese immigrants, who, while in the Che´s guerrilla group, died in combat on August 31, 1967, during an ambush held by the Bolivian army.
Sakamoto praised the work of the popular Japanese actor Joe Odagiri, who had to learn Spanish language to assume the character of Maymura, whose life he knew when reading the book ¨El Samurai de la Revolucion¨ (The Samurai of the Revolution), by Mary Maymura, sister of the heroic Bolivian guerrilla.
Cuban actor Juan Miguel Valero plays Che in the film, which was shot in Hiroshima and Tokyo, in Japan, and in the Cuban locations of Havana and Baracoa.
The audio-visual material displays the visit of Che to the city of Hiroshima in 1959 and the life of Freddy Maymura, especially his stay in Cuba, where he studied Medicine and his merits as revolutionary and great human being.
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