El extraordinario viaje del dragón

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How it feels

A filmmaker goes through 900 photographs taken by her great-uncle between 1933 and 1945. The images trace his path from a young soldier in Japan to a migrant in Peru and finally Venezuela. The film uses this family archive to think about migration, memory, and how people reshape themselves in new places.

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What happens

El extraordinario viaje del dragón (English: The Extraordinary Journey of Dragon) is a 2025 documentary film by Venezuelan-Japanese director Kaori Flores Yonekura. The filmmaker discovers 900 photographs taken by her great-uncle Yoshitomi, who documented his life from 1933 to 1945—beginning as a young soldier in Japan, through his migration to Peru, and finally Venezuela. Through these images, the figure of the Dragon emerges—a chimera that, like every migrant, adapts and transforms according to the territories it conquers, blending memory, myth, and reality. The film was Venezuela's candidate for the 40th Goya Awards as Best Ibero-American Film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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