PARTNER

OBJECT ID

ddr-densho-1024-12 (Internet Archive: cabemrc_000010)

PARENT COLLECTION

Digital Library of Japanese American Incarceration Films

DESCRIPTION

Early film that provides an overview of the wartime forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans on the West Coast produced by the University of California, Berkeley in 1975. Bitter Memory tells the story through narration and interviews with former inmates accompanied by archival footage from Office of War Information/War Relocation Authority (WRA) films and WRA still photos. All footage—even contemporary interview footage and footage shot at Tule Lake —is in black and white. Identified inmate narrators include poet and playwright Hiroshi Kashiwagi , Mary Otani, Michi Mukai, and Kumito Ishida. The bulk of the film deals with living conditions in the concentration camps—the lack of privacy, the breaking up of the family unit, employment, food and so forth—along with the loyalty questionnaire and segregation.

See this item in the Densho Resource Guide at: Bitter Memories: Tule Lake.

See this item in the Digital Library of the Japanese American Incarceration Films at: https://archive.org/details/cabemrc_000010.

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CONTRIBUTOR

Densho

PREFERRED CITATION

Courtesy of Japanese American Film Preservation Project, Densho

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