Tieko Irii

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Tieki Irii is from São Paulo, and graduated in cinema from FAAP in 1988. She lived in Japan between 1989 and 1991, where she studied Japanese architecture and culture. In Brazil, she built a 25-year career as a set designer and art director. She worked for production companies such as O2 Filmes, Mixer and Delicatessen. She participated in hundreds of advertisements and feature films such as Os Matadores, O Menino Maluquinho 2, and Castelo Rá-Tim-Bum. She was the art director for the series Retrato Falado, Dias de Glória, Cenas de Casamento, Soy Loco por ti, América, on the TV show Fantástico, from 2002 to 2007. She published the children's books: Tibi e seus mundos (Editora Globo, 2001); Tibi Quanta Gente (Editora Evoluir, 2004) and Tibi Volta as Estrelas (Editora Evoluir, 2016). In recent years, she has returned to writing based on her father's autobiography, where she traces a historical and social panorama that spans three generations of Japanese immigrants.

Updated November 2024

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Nikkei Chronicles #13—Nikkei Names 2: Grace, Graça, Graciela, Megumi?

The Well

Nov. 21, 2024 • Tieko Irii

I only started attending the local public school when I was seven years old. Up until that point, my world was just my grandparents' farm and the laundry room. On the first day of class, I discovered that the vast majority of students did not have slanted eyes; I was one of the few yellow-skinned students in the school. This fact in itself did not cause me any discomfort, since I had already seen a Brazil like that on TV, …

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