“After the [1980-1988] Iran-Iraq war, many Iranian men left Iran to Japan to find work and make money,” Bashti told the Persian service of MNA and added, “It was interesting for me to learn about their fate, therefore, I made a trip to Japan about three months ago to do research about them.”  

He said that most of the people were employed in menial and difficult jobs, and many acquiesced in marriage to Japanese women to enable them to stay in the country for a long time.  

“The documentary titled ‘Mehrabad-Narita’ will shed light on the lives of three Iranian expats that now enjoy a good life and have progressed in their jobs,” he stated.

The documentary also traces those Iranians emigrants, who were attracted to illicit affairs in the country.

“There are differences between those Iranian expats living in countries in Europe and America, and those who live in Japan,” Bashti said and added, “The Iranian emigrants in Japan left the homeland to find work and make money, and the documentary intends to show whether they achieved their goals or not.”

Bashti is preparing “Mehrabad-Narita”, which is being produced at the House of Documentary, to compete in the Cinema Verite, Iran’s major international documentary festival that is organized in Tehran every year in December.

Source: Tehran Times