Director / Caito Ortiz Script / André Godoi, Caito Ortiz, Giuliano Cedroni, Fernanda Guerreiro Synopsis For an unwary person, Mario Kubo is Japanese. For those who know him, Mario is Brazilian. Maybe neither. Descending from immigrant Japanese people and married to an occidental-looking woman, the São Paulo born 37-year-old lawyer is physically an oriental man – but a complete ignorant about the culture that dresses his face. He does not speak Japanese, does not read ideograms, does not practice religious rituals nor martial arts, does not like sushi and has never lain with a smooth-skin and slant-eyed woman. However, Mario carries something essentially Japanese inside him to the extent of feeling as a foreigner in his own country. During the sultry month of December 2004, marked by the newly-occurred Tsunami that swept Indoasia, Mario unties from his past life in a silent burst. Without any boast, he quits his job, house, wife and loosens ties with his story and moves to São Paulo’s oriental district, the Brazilian Chinatown... Liberdade. In an anthropological urban exploration, he plunges into the Brazilian people miscegenation and its different facets, collecting dangerous experiences in search of his real identity. He gets in contact with the oriental culture, learns how to distinguish the Japanese character from the Chinese one, unveils laurels and shames about his family, gest involved with the Korean mafia, lies with a Japanese woman, with a black woman and smokes opium. At the end of this long local journey, within few kilometers from where he lived his past life, and after almost losing his convictions and his own life, Mario emmerges in the other side of the world, in the heart of Tokyo, like a contemporary survivor – where he is finally acknowledged as a Brazilian man.