

Overview
Freddy Maemura Hurtado, a second-generation Japanese-Bolivian, heads to Cuba to study medicine. He meets revolutionist Che Guevara. When civil war breaks out in Bolivia, he decides to join Guevara’s revolutionary army under the name of “Ernesto Medico”.
Top Cast

Joe Odagiri
Freddy Maemura Hurtado

Kento Nagayama
Hideo Mori
Juan Miguel Valero Acosta
Che Guevara
Key Film Crew
Production Stats
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