Mark Izu(1954-2025)

Composer
Actor
Sound Department

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Following the end of the Vietnam War in 1975, millions refugees took the perilous escape across South China Sea to find freedom. Many died of drowning or starvation and thirst. Other lost at sea for days while some were pillaged, robbed and raped by pirates. However, more than 30 years after, no major film or television program tells their stories. Bolinao 52 is a long-silenced voice, an unspoken legacy of the Vietnam War - the story of the Vietnamese Boat People.

When Tung Trinh, a survivor of the Bolinao 52, stepped foot onto a crowded boat one night in May 1988, she did not know it was a trip that forever changed her life. After leaving Vietnam the Bolinao 52 engine died. They were ignored by passing ships. 19 days later, a US Navy ship stopped. But the captain refused to pick up the dying refugees. Facing death, they resorted to cannibalism. After 37 days at sea, 52 of 110 survived. Two decades later, this Bolinao 52 survivor returned to her past to close off the unresolved chapters.

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Bolinao 52 (2008)

Mark Izu was born on 30 September 1954 in Vallejo, California, USA. He was a composer and actor, known for Abnégation (1919), Bolinao 52 (2008) and Bienvenue au paradis (1990). He was married to Brenda Aoki. He died on 12 January 2025 in San Francisco, California, USA.

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Known for

Abnégation (1919)

6.6

Movie

Composer(2005 release)

1919

Bolinao 52 (2008)

8.7

Movie

Composer(music composed by)

2008

Dennis Quaid and Tamlyn Tomita in Bienvenue au paradis (1990)

Bienvenue au paradis

6.7

Movie

Social Club Band

1990

Stateless (2013)

Movie

Sound Department

2013

Credits

Composer

Mrs. Judo: Be Strong, Be Gentle, Be Beautiful
7.8
- Composer
- 2012
Bolinao 52
8.7
- Composer (music composed by)
- 2008
Ibéria
Video
- Composer
- 2007
Dave Tatsuno: Movies and Memories
TV Movie
- Composer
- 2006
Return to the Valley
TV Movie
- Composer
- 2003
Notes on a Scale
Short
- Composer
- 1994
Abnégation
6.6
- Composer (2005 release)
- 1919

Actor

Bienvenue au paradis
6.7
- Social Club Band
- 1990

Sound Department

Stateless
- sound
- 2013

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Bolinao 52

Personal details

Born
- September 30, 1954
- Vallejo, California, USA
Died
- January 12, 2025
- San Francisco, California, USA(colon cancer)
Spouse
- Brenda Aoki? - January 12, 2025 (his death, 1 child)

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Trivia
Has a son Kai Kane Aoki Izu.

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