Japanese American Movies

  • 2003
    Day of Independence

    Day of Independence

    Day of Independence

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

    Day of Independence
  • 2017
    Nisei Soldiers: Japanese American G.I. Joes

    Nisei Soldiers: Japanese American G.I. Joes

    Nisei Soldiers: Japanese American G.I. Joes

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

    Nisei Soldiers: Japanese American G.I. Joes
  • 2003
    UH Live Streaming 20 Dai wa Ike Ike!

    UH Live Streaming 20 Dai wa Ike Ike!

    UH Live Streaming 20 Dai wa Ike Ike!

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    Footage of the online event (talk session and studio mini gig) celebrating Hikaru Utada's 20th birthday on January 19, 2003.

    UH Live Streaming 20 Dai wa Ike Ike!
  • 1970
    Quick and With Fire

    Quick and With Fire

    Quick and With Fire

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    After being tricked by her grandmother, a promising college musician turns to medical cannibalism to overcome her chronic lung condition.

    Quick and With Fire
  • 1970
    Heart Mountain: Three Years in a Relocation Center

    Heart Mountain: Three Years in a Relocation Center

    Heart Mountain: Three Years in a Relocation Center

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    A documentary film about the internment of Japanese Americans at Heart Mountain, Wyoming during World War II. The program, hosted by Jan Yanehiro,...

    Heart Mountain: Three Years in a Relocation Center
  • 2015
    Tadaima

    Tadaima

    Tadaima

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    After the closure of US Japanese Internment Camps at the end of World War II, a Japanese American family returns home and must find the strength to...

    Tadaima
  • 2009
    Toyo's Camera

    Toyo's Camera

    Toyo's Camera

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    Even though bringing in cameras to the internment camps was prohibited, one man managed to smuggle in his own camera lens and build a camera to...

    Toyo's Camera
  • 2010
    442: Live with Honor, Die with Dignity

    442: Live with Honor, Die with Dignity

    442: Live with Honor, Die with Dignity

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    Medal of Honor Recipient George Sakato said with tear, ' I am not a hero. I just killed a lot of people. It's not good. This medal is for the people...

    442: Live with Honor, Die with Dignity
  • 1970
    Sam

    Sam

    Sam

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    A 1971 film study of a Japanese American who lived in a detention camp during World War II.

    Sam
  • 1991
    Days of Waiting: The Life & Art of Estelle Ishigo

    Days of Waiting: The Life & Art of Estelle Ishigo

    Days of Waiting: The Life & Art of Estelle Ishigo

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    The story of Estelle Ishigo, one of the few Caucasians interned with Japanese Americans during World War II. The wife of a Japanese American, Ishigo...

    Days of Waiting: The Life & Art of Estelle Ishigo
  • 1970
    Bon Odori

    Bon Odori

    Bon Odori

    01970HD

    A young Japanese-American boy struggles with the loss of his grandmother during his first Obon without her.

    Bon Odori