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Fort Calhoun traces its roots to a meeting between explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark and the Oto and Missouri tribes in August 1804 — 63 years before Nebraska became a state.

The film adds the wrinkle that the voice on the cassette with which Kafuku runs lines belongs to his wife, Oto.

We rehearsed several scenes that weren’t in the script, to focus on my character’s relationship with Oto.

The couple had a young daughter who died some years before, and when Oto dies suddenly, she leaves Yusuke paralyzed with grief.

We learn, from the film’s first act, that Oto has died, and that she had betrayed her husband before that.