Corações Sujos (Dirty Hearts)
This film is about one of the most awkward moments in Brazilian history: some Japanese immigrants, an otherwise peaceful bunch, formed a terrorist group who killed dozens and injured hundreds of people who held a simple belief - Japan lost WWII. They refused to acknowledge this ever happened, and would punish with death anyone who could accept the defeat even after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Such far-fetched story did happen, and this terrorist group was called Shindo Renmei, and they were quite successful. The Japanese believed them for quite a while, leading to odd situations when faced with visitors from the archipelago, whose puzzlement over questions about Japan's victory was disconcerting to the locals.
It took them a while to integrate with the general population, and one of the reasons is because they were believed to be too riotous and violent for Brazil... yet we still went on to host the largest colony in the world.
Based on a book with the same title. I read it in a single day, and it's by far the most fascinating story I've ever read.
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