Shiro Kawai

Shiro Kawai

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Down on the Sidewalk in Waikiki
Title: Down on the Sidewalk in Waikiki
Character: Japanese Businessman
Released: March 23, 2019
Type: Movie
In between growing frustrations toward cleaning up after an endless parade of tourists and reflections on a traumatizing memory, a voice rises from within a soft-spoken Hawaiian janitor down on the sidewalk in Waikiki. This narrative short film is inspired by a collection of poetry published posthumously featuring the work of Kānaka Maoli poet Wayne Kaumualii Westlake (1947-84).
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Running for Grace
Title: Running for Grace
Character: Koji
Released: August 17, 2018
Type: Movie
An orphan boy of mixed race finds family with the newly arrived white village doctor in Hawaii. The boy can run like the wind, and begins bringing Doc's medicine to coffee pickers throughout the mountainous region. On an errand, the medicine runner meets the daughter of the plantation owner and a forbidden, young love blossoms like the white "Kona Snow" of the surrounding coffee trees.
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Go for Broke
Title: Go for Broke
Character: Maehara
Released: October 14, 2017
Type: Movie
During the tumultuous year after the attack on Pearl Harbor, a group of University of Hawaii ROTC students navigate wartime Hawaii and fight discrimination.
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The Cleaner and the Deadman
Title: The Cleaner and the Deadman
Character: Yoshio
Released: July 27, 2017
Type: Movie
Two contract killers are hired by competing cartels to hunt down an elusive drug scientist. The scientist escapes, leading to a globetrotting chase and fight for survival.
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Lāhainā Noon
Title: Lāhainā Noon
Character: Saiichi
Released: November 3, 2014
Type: Movie
Lāhainā Noon interweaves three separate short stories that occur during the yearly tropical solar phenomenon in which the sun passes directly overhead at noon so that upright objects do not cast a shadow.
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Under the Blood-Red Sun
Title: Under the Blood-Red Sun
Character: Sanji
Released: September 14, 2014
Type: Movie
December 7, 1941 - TOMIKAZU “TOMI” NAKAJI (Kyler Ki Sakamoto) and his best friend BILLY DAVIS (Kalama Epstein) are playing baseball in a field near their homes in Hawaii when Japan launches a surprise attack on the US at Pearl Harbor. As Tomi looks up at the sky and recognizes the Blood-Red Sun emblem on the fighter planes, he knows that his life has changed forever. Based on actual events, Under the Blood-Red Sun is an unforgettable story of friendship, courage and survival.