The case of Dirty Hearts Film ‘another story’ about Japanese migration in Brazil

Abstract

Contexts, images and imaginations about migrants are narrated and represented in various ways. Literature and cinema are two of them. Both offer an immediate and complete portrait that evades the complexity of the analysis. This work is a critical exercise to clarify the representation of a group of Japanese migrants in Brazil and their actions, after the surrender of Japan, as a historical phenomenon through images. The main sources are the film Dirty Hearts by director Vicente Amorim and the homonymous work of literary journalism by Fernando Morais on which the script is based. The questions that arise are basic: Who speaks to whom? What is said? With what intentions is said? What are the expected results? Particularly, the connections between the spatial, cultural and historical contexts of the visually narrated phenomenon must be explained. The film work is not harmless. Therefore, it becomes historical evidence, becoming discourse.

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