Atsushi Funahashi directs a film that makes a number of rather eloquent comments, particularly on the way humanity seems to repeat the same mistakes through the years, thus questioning the whole evolution of the kind.
The fact that despite the radically different setting, both in terms of location and time, the results of a major catastrophe are the same, as the gap between the rich and the poor, the haves and the have-nots, becomes much wider, highlights this comment in the pointiest fashion. The same applies to that the prejudice and the extremely harsh behaviors follow the exactly opposite paths (Japanese towards Portuguese speakers in 2021 and vice versa in 1755) intensifying the comment even more, although Funahashi does not neglect to show how harsher the circumstances were during the 18th century.
Is the first-ever co-production among Japan, Portugal and USA