Kelyn Ikegami

Kelyn Ikegami grew up on a steady diet of world cinema, baseball, and Tokyo’s public transit. His love for the intersections of sports, the mundane, the world, and film propelled him to co-found The Plains, a film production company based in Utah, where he produces and directs commercial and creative work.

ABOUT JAPANTOWN: WHAT IS LOST, WHAT REMAINS

Paul Iwasaki was raised in Salt Lake City’s historic Japantown, a thriving neighborhood of locally owned businesses and cultural centers and an essential hub for Utah’s Japanese community. Fifty years later, he’s battling the forces of urban development to protect its only remaining landmarks and to restore the neighborhood’s cultural legacy.

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