a feature film
by 
yayoi lena naito winfrey

watermelon + sushi = watermelon sushi

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Michiko Johnson looks Asian. She says she's black. Bad, bold & sassy, the curly-haired artist is loud & proud about her Afro roots. She adores her younger sister, April, whose physical features are more African than hers. But Michiko wishes her baby sister wasn't so...well, rigid.

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April Johnson has more of an African phenotype than her older sister, Michiko. But April, a conservative international attorney, speaks fluent Japanese & eats only vegan meals with chopsticks. She & Michiko are close, but April just wishes her sister wasn't so...well, out there.

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The girl's mother, Junko, emigrated to the U.S. when she married an African American soldier from the south. Now, Junko's mother, Kazuko, who came to live with her daughter after Junko's divorce, lies near death.

Michiko is summoned home to San Francisco from her Los Angeles love pad leaving behind her Rastafarian musician boyfriend & a host of bad habits. Alone with her sick grandmother, Michiko is about to receive the most shocking news of her life while her sister April deals with her own devastating drama.

Told against the backdrop of the 1980's emerging hiphop scene, Watermelon Sushi is a family love story.
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