‘Chile ’76’ Review: A Rich Housewife Becomes a Reluctant Spy in Manuela Martelli’s Shrewd Pinochet-Era Thriller But while having Brazilian creators at the helm, the country serves as an inconsequential backdrop that could have easily been substituted by any other urban center. That incident in Osaka two decades prior landed Akemi and her grandfather in Sao Paolo - text on screen explains the South American city hosts the largest Japanese community outside of the island state. Gruesome dismemberment at a family party opens the film, adapted from the graphic novel “Samurai Shiro” by Danilo Beyruth. Such a seemingly trivial detail is indicative of the astounding incoherence and misguided international ambitions of this subpar action saga. Japan, however, makes their young people wait until they turn 20 for the right to booze it up. Yet, in nonsensical fashion, when Akemi (singer-songwriter Masumi), the Japanese-born, Brazilian-raised heroine of Vicente Amorim’s “ Yakuza Princess,” toasts in front of her late grandfather’s portrait, she follows American regulation and celebrates finally turning 21 as a major milestone. The legal drinking age in most countries around the globe is 18 years old Brazil is among those nations.
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