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...husband smelled a scam, but Otsuka invested her family's savings of $125,000 after learning of G.O. Group's miraculous new product, Uniba-G Tea. Made of banaba leaf from the Philippines, Ogami touted the tea as a revolutionary cure for obesity and diabetes. He spared no expense to exploit its marketing potential, hiring Jean-Claude Van Damme to appear in the Uniba-G TV commercial, in which the action star chugs the tea and kickboxes punks. Though the ad aired only a handful of times, the endorsement of Ogami's "close personal friend" received prominent play...
...million feature, set in the Philippines, he plays a character named Genta Ogami who receives a divine calling to find banaba tea. Along the way he tracks down the kidnapped father of the film's love interest, played by Joyce Jimenez, a buxom star of Philippine movies. Ogami, in heavy makeup, dodges bullets and wields samurai swords among a cast of 1,000 to defend the country from the white man. "He did well for a first-timer," insists director Toto Natividad, whose resume lists 45 Philippine action films. But while close-ups make clear the physical training and cosmetic...
They sailed away from Banaba in the middle of the night. But the winds were bad, and next morning they could still see the island. Luckily the Japanese did not see them. On the second night there was a storm, and the biggest canoe, which had three natives in it, was blown away and they never saw it again. The winds were bad and they could not get to Tarawa. Instead they were blown westward toward the Solomon Islands...
...still the canoe was carried along by the winds and current. And then one day Nabetari was blown onto the shore of a strange island called Ninigo, about 140 miles north of New Guinea and 1,800 miles away from Banaba. It was then November, so Nabetari had been at sea in his canoe for seven months without seeing land. Perhaps nobody in the world has been at sea so long in a canoe before, or traveled...
Nabetari is quite well now, and he has gone back to Banaba as a laborer. But his wonderful voyage in the canoe will become part of Gilbertese history...