Finding Fukue: Reflecting on the film and the quest to find a lost childhood friend
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 มิ.ย. 2020
- A little more than a year after the premiere, Finding Fukue directors Edmund Stenson and Daniel Roher, producer Felicity Justrabo, and Jessica Stuart, reconnect to reflect on the making of the film, its impact and how everyone is doing today. #CBCShortDocs
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Watch the original documentary here! th-cam.com/video/ZVlZMOB-Sq0/w-d-xo.html
Thank you for sharing your story. It was heartwarming and inspiring.
I just watched the film and so happy to see this update. What a beautiful story.
Covid19 is a leftist scam
My humble opinion is that Fukue now knows that all those years that she was bullied and felt probably alone, and surely sad, there was her childhood friend on the other side of the world thinking of her, and writing songs about her, trying to find her, and willing to fly around the world and put all the effort you guys did to find her. That must have been a beautiful healing feeling for the little girl inside her that went through so much. Both the actual real life events and the film are absolute gems, and hope all involved are great, and so glad that Fukue is doing so well.
Thank you guys.
Yeah, in Fukue's words, Jess returning healed her childhood trauma
Finding Fukue was an amazing journey and I'm glad you shared it with us.
Thank YOU for sharing it with us!
@@JESSAakaJessicaStuartMusic Thank you Jess I watched it & it brought tears to my eyes in a good way.
@@Ningnong4u thank you so much ♥️🙏
I had a pen pal for many years in the 80’s… being I’m male and she female, we quit writing as adults. For my part, I knew she was married, kids, etc. so I figured it would come across wrong, or hard to explain to a husband, if we still communicated as much as we did as teens. Anyway, in this age of technology, I did Google her name in 2012 just to see if there was any info on her or a Facebook page, etc. out of curiosity. Well sadly, she died in a head on collision the previous year. But the reason I even mention it is to share that her mom and I are now friends and she was so happy when I reached out to her. My own mom died 18 years ago, so it’s been a welcoming friendship that came to be out of something tragic.
I had a Taiwanese friend that was an exchange student . We were good friends for a short time and pen pals as well in the late 80's. I'm sure I still have her letters, I might try to find her her as well.
Please do try to find her and thanks for watching my story! ♥️
That is so sweet! I hope you can find her😊💕
Do it!!! 💗
You should try and find her. Don't live with regret. 🧡😇
Find her!!
It was such a sweet wholesome story
Thank you, Esther
I also used to live in Japan when I was kid , about 13 years ago in my class there's a boy who also used to live near my house we're like close neighbors and I still remembe one year before I came here , we used to come back from school together and he always Walks with me to home , I still remember his mood and face and the way he always wisper on my ears we played a lot too.
One day I want meet him and right now after watching this vedio want to go back to Japan and find him
Aww that’s so sweet! Thank you for sharing and yes! Go find them! 🤗🙏♥️
Woow this story related to my story. I am Namibian lived in USA for 3 years with my family when I was 8- 10 years old. I had a dear friend and we moved back home. We write to each other stopped sometime reconnected again. I still have a lot of fun memories about her. We are now in our 40s and never seen each other since. I'm happy for Fukue and Jess.
Wow! So similar! Thank you for sharing your story and being happy for our reunion! ♥️
Wow, this is incredible. I had the docu in my watch later playlist for SO long (maybe since it was released??), and I decided to watch it TODAY. And this was uploaded 11 hours ago????? Wow, just wow.
Good timing! Thank you for watching :)
Forgot to say I'm going to pop over to Jessica's channel and need to hear the song she wrote for Fukue.
Yah! Awesome! Thank you. There's actually two songs - the one in the film soundtrack, Fukue's Theme Part I (which i wrote after we reunited) th-cam.com/video/piy1x1IAO04/w-d-xo.html and the one i told her about in the doc from my last album, Lost Friends th-cam.com/video/2lQCd-kIXfc/w-d-xo.html . thank you so much!
I will be doing the same thing. 🙂
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@@JESSAakaJessicaStuartMusic gah, it was a very sweet video and a sweet song.
@@mikasa9167 thank you so much 🙏
Just found and watched this video, brought me tears remembering the far memories of my childhood in Canary Island, school, friends, 10 years life there. Now passed near 50years, lost most of the contact, but like Jessica-san, I hope to reconnect , before I get too old.
Definitely it was how sincere Jessica was that really drew me in. She just opened herself to us that it made me really root for her to succeed.
Fukue might have been the goal, but Jessica was the main character. So happy they were able to find each other.
I just watched the documentary and loved it, very touching and amazing how Jessica just wouldn't give up and then because of this team had the awesome opportunity to search for and finally find Fukue. This story will stay with me for a long, long time. Thank you all!
time flies! could not stop my tear dam watching the doc, kudos to the creators!
indeed! Thank you so much for watching and commenting :)
When you think a story cannot possibly have haters, you say this one did. How horrible when it is such a beautiful story.
I literally found the original documentary tonight, watched it and then watched this follow up. (July 19, 2020)
A BIG WELL DONE to you ALL. You made a truly moving and marvellous short documentary that I could actually watch over and over. It really was a sad yet beautiful story of love and friendship that we don't see or hear much of (right again Jess) and luckily for us but mostly for Jess and Fukue it has a happy ending.
You were commenting how ppl from all over the world watched it so... I was born, grew up and live in Australia 🇦🇺
I think Jess is SO RIGHT in saying what she did about the images and videos etc that her parents gave you to make this movie. They took us all back to those times in our childhood’s and so we related to the story in a much much more familiar way than if those hadn’t been included! So a massive THANK YOU TO JESS’ PARENTS 🥰!!
I have wondered Jess, has Fukue ever tell you the story of her childhood? I understand from everything you have all said here, including Ed, that the Japanese culture is very different to our western culture. That they are a very private society, one in which you don’t ask personal questions, that that’s considered very rude.
Obviously though that part of the story is still a quite compelling mystery, at least to me because I grew up in an impoverished family although likely not as bad as it seems Fukue had.
I said that about Japanese society because I guess I’m not expecting you to actually tell us what she said if she did tell you, but I was simply wondering if she ever solved that mystery for you?
Lastly I would like to say that there are probably more stories like this or stories of lost relatives so maybe, which this wretched Covid-19 Pandemic is over you could maybe make some more of these?
I know there are stories because my mum came from Austria, my dad from Denmark and on my mum’s side her dad was Czech and her mum was Hungarian. I have NEVER met any of my relatives that live in those countries or even know if they are still there. I’m pretty sure there more people like Jess and Fukue and me and my lost relatives out there that could be a treasure trove of really moving, watchable and popular short documentaries.
* I’m pretty sad and disappointed that you didn’t include a link to Jess’ TH-cam channel. How about editing it and putting that in for her? After all, without her there would be no story!?!
Thanks again to all of you for this beautiful story 💋🇦🇺
Wow! What a thoughtful and incredible response! I really appreciate you sharing in such a well-spoken way 🤗 And, i also appreciate you mentioning the absence of a link to my TH-cam channel or website on this vid and the original, because I did ask them nicely to do so on multiple occasions, and with this film having catapulted CBC docs’ subscribership from 6k to 150k, they can sure afford to share the wealth, and help me get to 5k 😂😭.
Thank you again for your articulate and heartfelt comment ♥️♥️♥️
@@JESSAakaJessicaStuartMusic you are so welcome. Sending you hugs. Stay safe.
@@angelabay-jespersen6205 thank you, Angela 🙏♥️
What a wonderful story. Thank you Jessica for sharing such a personal story.
(I believe more of us than you might imagine can relate to this story.)
And thank you Edmund, Daniel, and Felicity for doing such a good job bringing this story to life.
(I think the editing and rhythm/flow of the video raised it to another level of beauty and interest.)
thank you so much! :)
I had a friend, who moved back to Japan when we were in the 7th/8th grade. We kept in touch through out HS. I lost touch with her for a while & finally found her on FB. I am Japanese, but I don’t speak it. I got to visit Okinawa in 2016 & met some relatives for the first time.
My Babushka, Dedushka (Grandma and Grandpa) and I immigrated here from Russia in the early 60's. My parents both died when I was 4, so my Grandparents became my Guardians. 3 years later my Grandparents passed away 6 months apart and I was put in foster care. A couple years later, I was adopted by the best Dad anyone could ever ask for. He took it upon himself to find any living relatives and my neighbor who I grew up with. Unfortunately, he had no such luck but, that's okay. For him too go that far for me, meant the world to me. Rest In Paradise Dad, I love you so much.
The team did an amazing job on this documentary! I thought the editing did a great job of succinctly and conveying a decades-long mess of emotions and information. The music and choice to use Jess' work in the end credit music was perfect. I really appreciated your Q&A on it as well. You had great points about the challenges of language for a delicate topic involving privacy, the good fortune to find such willingness and receptiveness as well as the storybook happy conclusion, and the relative rarity of media stories in both non/fiction about deep lifelong friendships. It did occur to me while watching that Jess's parents had preserved an incredible amount of pre-Internet videos and photos, though I didn't think about the narrative impact until Jess mentioned it. I'm roughly the same age, and using my own experience for comparison, I barely existed in any media records until about 2006. :D
Thank you so much for the thoughtful comment! Re: My song in the credits - I had to fight to get the vocals to end up in the credits! All the other music we provided for the soundtrack was instrumental stuff - some of it was instrumentals of existing music of mine from past albums, and much of it was written using themes from that song Fukue’s Theme Part I in the credits! ♥️🤗🙏
Thank you for making this update. I always wondered how they were getting along now. Thanks to you guys, i now know that they are still the best of friends.
Thanks for caring about us, Brent! You can find all sorts of updates on my channel too when you wanna check in! 🤗♥️
Congrats on the 2 year anniversary of this beautiful story. I'm so glad that it's still possible to make documentaries with such depth.
Thank you so much, Katina! ♥️🤗
What a great story that was.
I can't believe she got some hater's.
Some people never want anyone happy.
Thanks
I said that to myself too and could say more but won't give "them" further attention. Impossible to not love this story!
It's ok! It's just a life lesson is all :) Thank you for writing, Davey!
With so many other people (I'm sure), this documentary has me thinking of those childhood friends with whom I lost contact. Ron Johnson, where are you?
It is special for a person to care that much about old friends! Incredible team Jess had to help her find Fukui!
Yah! I had tried to find Fukue on my first trip back in japan in the mid 2000’s, but didn’t succeed. Was lucky for an unexpected second chance and beautiful outcome! ♥️
Loved watching the documentary! Thanks for the follow up too!
Thank you for sharing! This story is incredible!
Thanks for putting up this emotional, inspirational in a way story for us to see. Sooo glad you found your friend. And hopefully for others seeing this will want to look for and find their lost friend. All it takes is persistence, not giving up, as you had not done. A priceless, beautiful gift to treasure forever. 🙂💝
Thank you so much, Je ♥️🙏
A beautiful expression of connection, the core of human essence.
I love the story I was so happy that they found each other and they were able to stay in touch this story had me crying
Aww thank you so much, Lisa ♥️🤗🙏
The documentary you made about finding Fukue was awesome. It brought a tears at the same time it inspired us. A great lesson for every human being.
thank you so much. that's incredibly kind
Wonderful documentary, wonderful visit with the filmmakers. Thank you!
Thank you! Very glad you enjoyed :)
This is such a wonderful story, thanks for sharing it!
Thank you for watching ♥️♥️🤗🤗🙏🙏
What a beautiful friendship.
I knew she had to fight to get her song in, seriously shes the star of the docu she deserves more credit etc.
It was emotionally touching. I can relate to it having lost some really nice people I have met spread over few countries. I always think how it be to search and meet them again.
I sense it watching this little documentary.
Thank you so much, Thiaga 🙏 I’m glad you can relate! ♥️🤗
It was a Touching Story … Good on you. Thank you for Sharing. My take on this clip … There is no boundaries when it comes to Humanity, it's about Diversity, Co-Existence.
Thank you, Phillip! That’s a perfect takeaway 🙏♥️
I had to change my shirt after watching the doc because it had mysteriously gotten really damp. Jess is so right about the VHS tapes being such an integral part of the video, reliving those memories with her was magical. Good childhood memories are so special although I never had such a close friend like Jess did. Having this show up in my YT feed in this tortuous year provided a small but valuable respite.
You’re so very kind 🙏 Thank you so much for the thoughtful words! ♥️🤗
Great Doc
Great film making. You really did an amazing job succeeding finding her friend for her. Without your hard work she would have never reconnected. I'm sure you inspired others to keep looking.
I agree with that sentiment Jessica the home video footage definitely help establish the connection & made me care about the story.
loved that film very emotional
Thank you for watching and commenting, Pete 🤗♥️
Finding Fukue was a good display of the phileo kind of love that Jessica touched on. Well done!
Thank you so much! ♥️
I watched the video, it was excellent and heart warming viewing
Thank you so much, Rufus! ❤️🙏
They should make a movie about this
Many other commenters seem to agree with you! I’d rather Fukue and I in an anime than a live action movie if I had the choice tho 😜
loved it because it was real and honest
How could anyone hate this story. Really? So sad. Well I am so HAPPY for you found each other. I love this film. When I feeling kinda of down, I watch it :). A few of the millions of views I think are me. :)
Aww thanks so much, amber ♥️🤗
Just seeing this in 2021 • Your story moved Me • It was Brilliant☑️
I wish you all the best
Thank you so very much
I think a lot of people who watched the documentary had their faith in humanity restored -- and felt a sense of great fortune that, as Jessica said, for once things ended up right.
It will be Lovely to make a movie on this ❤
Beautiful story, I'm sooo happy for Fukue and Jess! Greetings from Serbia! :)
thank you so much, Vezeri!
What a sweet story ... and beautiful song about your friend, Fukue :))
Thank you so much! ♥️🙏
@@JESSAakaJessicaStuartMusic Jessica - where could I purchase your song? I'm on iTunes, but I couldn't find it?
@@jcpc0824 thanks for asking! Oh! Sorry to hear that! 🥴 That one song was released under the name Jessica Stuart - the only original song I’ve released not under JESSA or The Jessica Stuart Few. Hopefully that helps? It should be there! Please let me know! And at worst you could buy it on my jessicastuartfew.bandcamp.com in the format of your choice or from my website! Jessasongs.com under the music tab ♥️🙏🤗
A blockbuster in my books…
I think it’s a wonderful story and there’s no two ways about your true friendship, Jess. Haters gonna hate and they can go %#$* themselves. I’m just so glad you found one another!
Is the B-roll available? I would love to see a full length version of this doco.
Beautiful addition to an amazing CBC doc. I would only argue the plug at the end for Jess's music was off topic and cheap. Otherwise, thank for your work.
I thought that was such a beautiful reunion. The world should display such love and friendship. National borders race should not divide such love and sisterhood or brotherhood. That is true love. Thank you.
There is an international high school in Karuizawa, a town very close to Saku and the students from there often go to Saku to hang out. It's called UWC ISAK Japan.
Interesting! I remember karuizawa well, but never heard about that school when I lived in saku - the Shinkansen hadn’t arrived yet to that area so the population was small and we were such a rarity as a non-Japanese family, that I’d be surprised if there were other foreigners that close by at that time! But who knows - I was a kid so I wouldn’t know best 🤗
Who is responsible to stop the Bullying?
Surely we can do better @ protecting people.
That's cool how you 2 were best friends.
Not cool how you ran from her house but I can understand why.
That was amazing how you flew
1/2 way around the world @ a chance to see your friend again.
And how the media welcomed you @ city hall.
Beautiful! BTW Jess, how did you retain your Japanese?
A variety of ways! Mostly through touring in japan over the past 10 years, but I get into it in more detail in some of the early “Finding Fukue Questions Answered” videos on my channel, so feel free to dip a toe in the rabbit hole if you dare 🤗😜
0:26 14 million views now!
Waiting for Finding Fukue anime 🤞
Sounds dope ngl
I’m still hoping to find Aya Suzuki
Nice story, I'm interested in a second part. Are you still in contact?
Wow
Jess needs to do a concert at the school where they were students at!!
Played a few concerts there and did a music workshop as well! 🤗
I wonder how the Story was received in Japan ? Can you tell ? It seems to have had a lot of Media Coverage there.
And I am surely happy to hear, that Fukue did not get any bad Comments. I am always surprised that there is any Bullying in Japan, when they are known to be ultra-social. But then again - Bullying seems to be universal, and the Japanese People still are Human Beings, I suppose.
By the way, I can remember going to School not knowing the Language - that is hard, but it did not last long, at that age (7 Years old) You still are able to assimilate a Language rapidly. But I only had to learn English, not Japanese :)
Great project 👌👌
Yes, you need to bring an omiyage from your country when you visit Japan. :)
I really hate to be “that person”, really I do… and I did leave a positive comment on the documentary page BUT damn Daniel, put your phone down or whatever you’re messing with. You are the only one who only looks at the camera when you are talking. Don’t ask a question to someone and then attend to something else as they answer you. It’s distracting to watch and rude to them. Bless your heart.
yah! well said, Richard :)
Jessica what's your utube channel called.
WONDERFUL STORY !!!!!! AFTER 45 YEARS, MY STORY IS SIMILAR TO JESSIE BUT, TURNED OUT OPPOSITE OF HER ~~~~~~ IT HURTS !!!!!!
6 millions of people did not see this movie. I'm sure, many like me, watched it 10 times.
Which means it had an even greater impact on people!
I married my penpal ^_^ . Japanese too . Lolz van story haha .
Somebody needs to tell Daniel that a blob is trying to eat him.
Fer sher!
Shapeshifting Afro Blob XD
Heheh those backgrounds! 😜
Hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
She didn’t have Google?!?
This is a boring video. Quite frankly, no one really cares about the film makers. We care about the subjects, ESPECIALLY Fukue. this is just narcissism on the part of the film-makers.