Brothers Taigi and Kenji Maeda make sushi at Koto Japanese Restaurant on one of the restaurant's final days. In his Facebook post about the restaurant closing, Kenji wrote, 'My brother or I travel from Vancouver to Campbell River every weekend to help out at the restaurant. We've been doing this for years.
A family-run B.C. sushi restaurant closed after 39 years. The whole community came out to say goodbye. | CBC Documentaries LoadedDocumentary ‘Koto: The Last Service’ shares the restaurant’s final days. For Director Joella Cabalu, making the film made her realize the importance of telling people how much they mean to you.Brothers Taigi and Kenji Maeda make sushi at Koto Japanese Restaurant on one of the restaurant's final days.
However, as is often the case with documentary filmmaking, our attempts to secure funding were unsuccessful. In early 2020, Kenji and I started the editing process independently, but when the pandemic hit, we decided to put the project on hold indefinitely to focus on more pressing issues. I pondered how I could respond to the racist sentiments and violence as an artist and filmmaker, but also offer healing to my community. During one of my many walks in those early days of the pandemic, I remembered that we had a treasure trove of beautiful, transformative and affirming visual material of a community embracing a Japanese Canadian family.
Kazue Maeda and her late husband Takeo opened Koto Japanese Restaurant in 1980. It was one of the first authentic Japanese restaurants in the "Salmon Capital of the World."
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