Esmeraldero

Nov 17, 2003

★ 5.0

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

No Trailers found.

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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