Japanese American Internment Movies
- 2015
Changing Season
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Venture out to the Masumoto Farm – eighty acres of prime, peach-growing orchards – where seven varieties of the sweet juicy fruit are...
- 1998
Double Solitaire
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The filmmaker's father and uncle, Norm and Stan, are third generation Japanese Americans. They are "all American" guys who love bowling, cards and...
- 2015
Freeway City
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FREEWAY CITY is a provocative case study on how the collision of race, politics and casino economics shaped the destiny of Gardena, California.
- 1970
Sam
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A 1971 film study of a Japanese American who lived in a detention camp during World War II.
- 1970
The Songbird of Manzanar
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Music provided relief during the years of the Japanese American internment throughout WWII. Mary Nomura performed in Manzanar for the three years of...
- 2001
Skate Manzanar
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A meditation on skateboarding, civil liberties and memory. Inspired by the essay by Martin Wong, "Return to Manzanar", based on a trip he took with...
- 1970
Tanforan: Race Track to Assembly Center
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From Race Track to Assembly Center documents life for San Francisco Bay Area residents of Japanese ancestry incarcerated at the Tanforan Race Track...
- 1970
Before They Take Us Away
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At the start of World War II, Japanese Americans living on the West Coast were faced with the threat of forced removal and incarceration in...
- 1970
Our American Family: The Furutas
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A Japanese-American family establishes a goldfish farm, only to have the business -- and family -- devastated by World War II.
- 1970
Enemy Alien
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A Palestinian activist's fight for freedom draws a Japanese American filmmaker into confrontation with detention regimes of past and present.