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This film tells the story of Kyuzo Miyoshi, known as FRANKIE SAN to most. FRANKIE SAN came to the united States after be | dG1fd1h6a3o3dV93OGM
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00:00Franky-san, did you know Franky-san?
00:26Know Franky-san well.
00:30Do you have any stories of Franky?
00:34How long you got?
00:37I met Franky-san at the Central Correctional Institution.
00:41It's impossible to adequately describe the horrors of the Central Correctional Institution.
00:54It was built in the 1850s.
00:56It was a five-story dungeon.
00:59It was a hellhole.
01:02It was awful.
01:03It was dirty.
01:04It was dark.
01:05It was dangerous.
01:06It stunk.
01:08It stunk of evil.
01:09It was an amazing sight.
01:15This tiny Asian man who can't speak English walking around a gaggle of murderers and rapists
01:25with a parrot on his shoulders.
01:32And the parrot couldn't speak English either.
01:34The first definition for a pioneer is the first person to do something.
01:41And then the second definition, which I thought was also interesting, is somebody who prepares
01:46a way for others.
01:48That would definitely be the case with Franky and everything that he's done.
01:51Nobody had gone into that prison.
01:57Even visitations from family were discouraged because it was just so dangerous.
02:02And that was a segue to his going into a life sentence in the prison.
02:20To be continued...

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