Esmeraldero

Nov 17, 2003

★ 7.0

Overview

The true story of the rise of a Japanese businessman from Los Angeles named Eishy Hayata from an Airline engineer into the legend of the Emerald world -- the Emerald Cowboy

Genres

Drama

Documentary

Production Companies

Burn Pictures

EGM Productions

Esmeraldero Trailers

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Cast

Self

Eishy Hayata

Chucho

Juan Pablo Shuk

Young Eishy

Lucho Velasco

Reportero

John K. Anderson

Montaño

Gustavo Angarita Jr.

Aurelia

Carolina Lizarazo

Dave

Ricardo Wilke

Claudio

Horacio Tavera

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