“Touching and real...a treat to see.”

    -- Francis Ford Coppola

“I recommend it highly...part biography, part concert touring film, and part Pied Piper reincarnated.

    -- David Bianculli, Television critic

A production of the Center for Asian American Media and Pacific Islanders in Communications, Jake Shimabukuro: Life on Four Strings is a compelling portrait of an inspiring and inventive musician whose virtuoso skills on the ukulele have transformed all previous notions of the instrument's potential.

Through intimate conversations with Shimabukuro (she-ma-BOO-koo-row), Life on Four Strings reveals the cultural and personal influences that have shaped the man and the musician. On the road from Los Angeles to New York to Japan, the film captures the solitary life on tour: the exhilaration of performance, the wonder of newfound fame, the loneliness of separation from home and family.

For more information please visit www.lifeonfourstrings.com