Lil Tokyo Reporter
(2012)
★ 8.4 IMDb · 1,351 votes
Year: 2012
Runtime: 30 мин
Country: United States of America
Director: Jeffrey Gee Chin
Cast: Крис Ташима, Кейко Аджена, Эйдзиро Одзаки, Ikuma Ando, Сьюэлл Уитни, Гаррет Сато, Hiro Matsunaga, Eric Fehmel-Noda, Lani Nishiyama, Talbott Lin
Plot
1935 Los Angeles, community leader Sei Fujii uncovers the corrupt activities of his community's underground mafia. He must choose between saving the face of his deteriorating community and confronting the issues head on through his newspaper. Based on a true story.
Sei Fujii is a crusading reporter for a newspaper in Los Angeles' Little Tokyo section in 1935. He is concerned that the exploitation of the poor by local gambling concerns will not only hurt the community directly, but will also sabotage the efforts to make the rest of Los Angeles accept the Japanese of Little Tokyo as loyal and trustworthy Americans. Fujii sets out to bring the power of the press to play against the gambling houses.