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List Of Feature Films About The Japanese American Internment
Feature films about the Japanese American internment, World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans include: Feature films * ''American Pastime (film), American Pastime'' (2007) Focuses on internees' use of baseball as a source of entertainment while living in camp * ''Bad Day at Black Rock'' (1955) * ''Come See the Paradise'' (1990) Follows an interracial family separated by the wartime incarceration program * ''Day of Independence'' (2003) A Nisei teen immerses himself in baseball after his parents decide to return to Japan rather than remain in camp in the U.S. * ''Farewell to Manzanar (film), Farewell to Manzanar'' (1976) Made-for-television adaptation of Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston's Farewell to Manzanar, memoirs of her time in the Manzanar internment camp * ''Forgotten Valor'' (2001) Written and directed by Lane Nishikawa, a Nisei veteran remembers his experiences during World War II * ''Go for Broke! (1951 film), Go for Broke!'' (1951) Based on the real-life story of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese American Internment
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Japanese Americans (miniseries)
is a five-episode Japanese-language TV miniseries produced by TBShttp://www.tbs.co.jp/japanese-americans/ for its 60th anniversary announced in 3–7 November 2010, starring Tsuyoshi Kusanagi and Yukie Nakama, and sponsored by Toyota and Panasonic. Plot In 2010, two Japanese Americans lon "HIRAMATSU FARM", Jiro Hiramatsu (Tsunehiko Kamijo) and his late older brother's wife Shinobu Hiramatsu (Kaoru Yachigusa) were watching Ichiro Suzuki play baseball at the stadium in Seattle. They were invited to meet their younger sister who was separated from the family in 1940, Sachi Ota (Meguko Kishi). Sachi's daughter-in-law, Keiko Ota (Keiko Horiuchi) made the case that Sachi will be able to meet Jiro and Shinobu for the first time in seventy years. Firstly, Sachi rejected meeting her family living in the U.S. again, because she was thinking that she and her late older sister were cast out from her parents. However, Sachi wanted to meet Jiro and Shinobu because of her having the operation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Schneider (filmmaker)
Ken Schneider, ACE is a director, producer, and editor for PatchWorks Films, a production company in San Francisco. He has traveled and made films in Cuba for many years alongside wife and film collaborator, Marcia Jarmel. They co-directed Los Hermanos/The Brothers, which tells the story of virtuoso Afro-Cuban brothers living on opposite sides of a geopolitical chasm, one in New York, the other in Havana. The film follows their parallel lives and poignant reunion through their momentous first performances together after so long apart. Outside of his directorial work for PatchWorks Films, Schneider works as a freelance editor and is a member of the American Cinema Editors (ACE). He has edited over 40 feature documentaries for PBS, HBO, Showtime, and Al Jazeera. The subjects range from art and literature to war and peace, immigration, disability and social justice. A notable editing credit is on the Oscar-nominated, ''Regret to Inform'', which the New York Times described as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abby Ginzberg
Abby Ginzberg is an independent documentary film director and producer and founder of Ginzberg Productions. For the past 30 years, Ginzberg has been creating films that tackle discrimination and the legal profession. Career She graduated from UC Hastings College of the Law in 1975, and taught at Boalt Hall School of Law from 1975 to 1976, and at New College School of Law from 1981 to 1985. In 2005, Ginzberg released the documentary ''Soul of Justice: Thelton Henderson’s American Journey'', which profiled federal district judge Thelton Henderson. Another film, ''A Tale of Two Cities'', discusses the difficulty of forming high-school education for disadvantaged juvenile youths. Her film, ''Doing Justice: The Life and Trials of Arthur Kinoy'', won a number of awards. She also directed the Peabody award-winning film, ''Soft Vengeance: Albie Sachs and the New South Africa.'' The documentary, which was supported by the Ford Foundation, chronicled the life of anti-apartheid freed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steven Okazaki
Steven Toll Okazaki (born March 12, 1952) is an American documentary filmmaker known for his raw, cinéma vérité-style documentaries that frequently show ordinary people dealing with extraordinary circumstances. He has received a Peabody Award, a Primetime Emmy and has been nominated for four Academy Awards, winning an Oscar for the documentary short subject, '' Days of Waiting: The Life & Art of Estelle Ishigo''. Career Steven Okazaki started his career at Churchill Films in 1976, making narrative and documentary shorts. In 1982, he produced Survivors' for WGBH Boston, a documentary short about Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bomb survivors. In 1985, he received his first Academy Award nomination for '' Unfinished Business'', about three ''Nisei'' Japanese Americans who challenged the Internment of Japanese Americans during World War II in court. In 1987, he wrote and directed the independent film, '' Living on Tokyo Time'', which premiered in competition at the Sundance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graham Salisbury
Graham Salisbury (born April 11, 1944) is an American children's writer. His best known work is ''Under the Blood Red Sun'', a historical novel that features a Japanese-American boy and his family during World War II. Under the name Sandy Salisbury he was a pop musician in the late 1960s, notably with The Millennium. Biography Salisbury was born in Philadelphia. He grew up in Hawaii and lived in Kailua, Oahu. Later he attended Hawaii Preparatory Academy in Kamuela, Hawaii. Salisbury was a songwriter and musician in the late 1960s and is best known for his association with Curt Boettcher. He was a member of Boettcher's groups The Millennium and The Ballroom (whose 1966 album remained unreleased until 2001), before attempting a solo career of his own, with Boettcher producing, on Gary Usher's Together Records label. He performed on many hit recordings from bands such as The Association, Paul Revere and The Raiders, Tommy Roe and many others. On The Millennium's only album, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Under The Blood Red Sun
''Under the Blood Red Sun'' is a historical novel by Graham Salisbury, published in 1995. An award-winning feature film by Japanese-American director Tim Savage and produced by Dana Satler Hankins, from a screenplay by Salisbury, was released in 2014. Plot summary The novel details the adventure of Tomikazu Nakaji, a Japanese-American boy, and his family during World War II, when Americans of Japanese descent were being sent to internment camps. Tomi lives in Hawaii, and witnesses the shocking attack on Pearl Harbor. The story centers on the racist persecution of Tomi's family by others, the government's suspicion of the Japanese, and the family's efforts to downplay their Japanese heritage. He is joined by his ''haole'' or white friend, Billy, when his father and grandfather are captured and brought to a prison camp. Their friend Sanji (age 19) is killed and Tomi's dad is shot in the leg. Tomikazu Nakaji is determined to be an American. This is not easy for though he was born in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Magic Of Ordinary Days
''The Magic of Ordinary Days'' is a Hallmark Hall of Fame production based on a novel of the same name by Ann Howard Creel and adapted as a teleplay by Camille Thomasson.Full cast and crew for The Magic of Ordinary Days - . It was directed by Brent Shields, produced by Andrew Gottlieb and stars , , and |
Strawberry Fields (1997 Film)
''Strawberry Fields'' is a 1997 independent feature film directed by Japanese American filmmaker Rea Tajiri and co-written by Tajiri and Japanese Canadian author Kerri Sakamoto. Plot The story of the film centers on Irene Kawai, a Japanese American teenager in Chicago in the 1970s who is haunted by a photo of her grandfather she never knew standing by a barracks in a World War II internment camp for Japanese Americans. Prompted by visits from the ghost of ''Terri'', her dead baby sister, Irene journeys with her boyfriend Luke on a road trip to Arizona, where the Poston War Relocation Center once stood, and where the photo of her grandfather was taken. Main cast * Suzy Nakamura as Irene Kawai * James Sie as Luke * Heather Yoshimura as Terri * Marilyn Tokuda as Alice * Reiko Mathieu as Aura * Chris Tashima as Mark * Takayo Fischer as Takayo * Peter Yoshida as Bill Production Filmmaker Rea Tajiri, whose own grandparents and parents were interned, was inspired to make the proje ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ralph Lazo Story
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David Guterson
David Guterson ( ; born May 4, 1956) is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, journalist, and essayist. He is best known as the author of the bestselling Japanese American internment novel ''Snow Falling on Cedars''. Early life Guterson was born May4, 1956 in Seattle, Washington the son of criminal defense lawyer Murray Guterson. He attended Seattle Public Schools and Roosevelt High School, then the University of Washington, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in English literature and a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing. He is also a Guggenheim Fellow. Teaching, writing Before writing professionally, Guterson worked as a teacher for 10 years at Bainbridge High School. During that time he began having stories and essays published in small magazines and periodicals, and eventually sold pieces to ''Esquire'', ''Sports Illustrated'' and ''Harper's Magazine''. His first book, ''The Country Ahead of Us, the Country Behind'' (1989) is a collection of short stories set ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snow Falling On Cedars
''Snow Falling on Cedars'' is a 1994 novel by David Guterson. Guterson, a teacher, wrote the book in the early morning hours over ten years then quit his job to write full-time. Plot Set on the fictional San Piedro Island in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, just north of Puget Sound, in the state of Washington in 1954, the plot revolves around a murder case in which Kabuo Miyamoto, a Japanese American, is accused of killing Carl Heine, a respected fisherman in the close-knit community. Much of the story is told in flashbacks explaining the interaction of the various characters over the prior decades. Carl's body had been pulled from the sea, trapped in his own net, on September 16, 1954. His water-damaged watch had stopped at 1:47. The trial, held in December 1954 during a snowstorm that grips the entire island, occurs in the midst of deep anti-Japanese sentiments following World War II. Covering the case is the editor of the town's one-man newspaper, the ''San Piedro Review'', Ishma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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