Sisam

Directed by Hiroyuki Nakao

With Kanichiro, Takahiro Miura, Masato Wada, Ryota Bando and Sahel Rosa

A history drama portraying the confrontation between the indigenous Ainu people living on Japan’s northernmost main island—then called “Ezo” and now known as “Hokkaido”—and the “sisam”, the Ainu word for ethnic Japanese.