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Allegiance

December 12, 2016

Inspired by the true-life experience of its star George Takei, Allegiance follows one family's extraordinary journey in this untold American story following the events of Pearl Harbor. Their...

Kintsugi

April 21, 2023

Kylie, a college nursing student troubled and traumatized by the recent events of her passing boyfriend, learns to find peace and strength through an ancient practice from the relationships ...

Old Man River

March 2, 1999

Documentary film version of the stage show in which actress Cynthia Gates Fujikawa explores the story of her father, actor Jerry Fujikawa, who had a long career in films and television, most...

Omoiyari

March 13, 2022

Violinist and songwriter Kishi Bashi travels on a musical journey to understand WWII era Japanese Incarceration, assimilation, and what it means to be a minority in America today....

Farewell to Manzanar

March 10, 1976

Fact based drama about one of the internment camps used by the American military during World War II to detain some 100,000 Japanese Americans (most of them U.S. born) following Japan's atta...

A Bitter Legacy

November 17, 2017

A sobering look at the brutal treatment of Japanese-Americans before, during, and after WWII as well as the global repercussions that resulted....

Day of Independence

September 25, 2003

Zip, a 17 year-old Nisei (second-generation Japanese American) baseball pitcher, faces the tragic circumstances of the World War II internment of 110,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry. Set ...

Grandpa Cherry Blossom

May 11, 2023

The story of Francis Uyematsu, a Japanese immigrant, told through the words of his granddaughter, Mary Uyematsu Kao, and Chuck Currier, a local historian and former teacher. Uyematsu created...

Under the Blood-Red Sun

September 13, 2014

December 7, 1941 - TOMIKAZU “TOMI” NAKAJI (Kyler Ki Sakamoto) and his best friend BILLY DAVIS (Kalama Epstein) are playing baseball in a field near their homes in Hawaii when Japan launches ...

The Untold Story of Ralph Carr and the Japanese: The Fate of 3 Japanese-Americans and the Internment

May 31, 2010

This historical documentary tells the little-known story of Ralph Carr, who was the Governor of Colorado from 1939-1943. Governor Carr was a passionate defender of Japanese Americans' rights...

Children of the Camps

April 25, 1999

Documentary following six Americans of Japanese ancestry who were held in U.S. internment camps during World War II....

History and Memory: For Akiko and Takashige

April 9, 1991

This film is a poetic composition of recorded history and non-recorded memory. Filmmaker Rea Tajiri’s family was among the 120,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans who were imprisoned in inte...

Skate Manzanar

December 31, 2000

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 "Giant Robot" publisher Eric Nakamura....

Nisei Soldiers: Japanese American G.I. Joes

March 31, 2017

Leaving internment camps to defend their country in Europe, Japanese-American Nisei soldiers of WWII became the most decorated unit in American history....

Double Solitaire

February 28, 1998

The filmmaker's father and uncle, Norm and Stan, are third generation Japanese Americans. They are "all American" guys who love bowling, cards and pinball. Placed in the Amache internment ca...

Resistance at Tule Lake

July 18, 2017

The long-suppressed story of 12,000 Japanese Americans who dared to resist the U.S. government's program of mass incarceration during World War II. Branded as 'disloyals' and re-imprisoned a...

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....