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The Oak Tree and Onigiri

  • 2017
  • 15m
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The Oak Tree and Onigiri (2017)
In pre-World War II Los Angeles, a young Japanese girl learns the tradition and beauty behind her family's business of selling onigiri (rice balls), until the fateful day December 7th shutters the world she knows. Ten years later, the irrevocably altered, the unspoken pledge of a stranger will open up the world to her again.
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    • Masanori Baba
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    • Justin Paul Long
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    • Tamlyn Tomita
    • Shinichirô Okano
    • Saya Okano
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      • Masanori Baba
      • Justin Paul Long
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      • Tamlyn Tomita
      • Shinichirô Okano
      • Saya Okano
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    Tamlyn Tomita
    • Misako
    Shinichirô Okano
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    Saya Okano
    • Sachi
    Akari Harada
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    Steve Gutierrez
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    Jonathan Jose Quintana
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    Brian Ronan Mulroy
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    Toshiko Okawa
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      • February 18, 2017 (United States)
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