ddr-densho-1024 — Digital Library of Japanese American Incarceration Films — Objects

av Topaz, The Chessmen (ddr-densho-1024-27)

Short narrative film about Japanese Americans struggling to run a flower nursery set in Northern California in 1949. Based on a short story by Toshio Mori , filmmaker Ken Kokka made the film as a film student at UCLA. As the story begins, Mas, a middle-aged Nisei man who had lost his nursery as a result …

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av Blossoms & Thorns: A Community Uprooted (ddr-densho-1024-28)

Documentary film that examines Japanese American cut flower growers in Richmond, California, before, during and after World War II. Written and directed by Ken Kokka, the 19-minute film was funded by the Contra Costa Japanese American Citizens League. See this item in the Densho Resource Guide at: Blossoms & Thorns: A Community Uprooted . See this …

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av Old Man River (ddr-densho-1024-29)

Filmed version of Cynthia Gates Fujikawa's one-woman play of the same name about her search to unearth the secrets in the life of her father, actor Jerry Fujikawa. The play premiered in New York in 1997. Gates and documentary film director Allan Holzman filmed her performances during the run of the play in Los Angeles in …

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av Day of Remembrance (ddr-densho-1024-30)

Documentary film by Cynthia Gates Fujikawa consisting of highlights from 2003 Day of Remembrance (DoR) commemorations in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Honolulu, all of which highlight the parallels between what happened to Japanese Americans in 1942 and what was then happening to Arab and Muslim Americans in the aftermath of the 9/11 …

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av Never Give Up! Minoru Yasui and the Fight for Justice (ddr-densho-1024-31)

Documentary film on the life of Minoru Yasui (1916–86) made by his daughter, Holly Yasui. Never Give Up! covers Yasui's life in a straightforward chronological fashion beginning with his early life in Hood River, Oregon, law school and involvement with the Japanese American Citizens League , his and his family's wartime incarceration, his legal challenge of …

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av The Art of Gaman: The Story Behind the Objects (ddr-densho-1024-33)

A short documentary film created by Rick Quan in 2010 to accompany the traveling exhibition, The Art of Gaman: Arts and Crafts from the Japanese American Internment Camps, 1942-1946 which features arts and crafts created by Japanese American internees while living in World War II concentration camps. The film includes stories about the inmates who created …

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av Quiet Devotion: The Inspiration & Architecture of Gyo Obata (ddr-densho-1024-35)

See this item in the Digital Library of the Japanese American Incarceration Films at: https://archive.org/details/ddr-densho-1024-35.

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av Nebraska's Nisei (ddr-densho-1024-36)

Documentary film produced by the University of Nebraska that tells the story of three Nisei from Heart Mountain who left camp to attend the University of Nebraska through the National Japanese American Student Relocation Council during World War II. The three are Pat Sano, Marie Yamashita Snell, and Tom Shiokari. The story is told through interviews, …

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av Mitsuye and Nellie: Asian American Poets (ddr-densho-1024-37)

One of the earliest documentaries to broach the topic of Japanese American wartime incarceration, Mitsuye and Nellie profiles Asian American poets Mitsuye Yamada and Nellie Wong, showing them reading their poetry, meeting their family and visiting the Minidoka and Angel Island sites. See this item in the Densho Resource Guide at: Mitsuye and Nellie: Asian American …

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av In Search of No-No Boy (ddr-densho-1024-38)

Documentary film on the landmark novel No-No Boy and its author John Okada that includes a profile of Okada (including interviews with his widow and children), the background of the loyalty questionnaire and draft resistance , and the book's rediscovery a decade and a half later. The film includes readings of key scenes by poet Lawson …

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av Yonsei Eyes (ddr-densho-1024-39)

Yonsei Eyes is the story of two fourth-generation Japanese Americans who embark on a pilgrimage to the place where their grandparents were once imprisoned during World War II. Their journey takes them to the desolate site of the Tule Lake Segregation Center where they begin to understand the profound hardships and indignities their grandfathers had to …

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av Democracy Under Pressure: Japanese Americans and World War II (ddr-densho-1024-40)

Documentary film on the wartime experience of Japanese Americans from the San Diego area, including their exclusion and subsequent incarceration at Santa Anita Assembly Center and Poston , as well as their return home. The story is told through the eyes of former inmates Ruth Takahashi Voorhies (born 1923) and Ben Segawa (born 1930), along with …

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av Voices Behind Barbed Wire (Hawai'i Island Version) (ddr-densho-1024-42)

Short film that tells the story of Japanese Americans on Big Island of Hawai'i who were interned during World War II using a combination of contemporary interviews, historical photographs and footage, and historical reenactments. It is one of a series of four films produced by the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai'i about the internment experience in …

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av Voices Behind Barbed Wire (O'ahu Version) (ddr-densho-1024-43)

Short film that tells the story of Japanese Americans on O'ahu who were interned during World War II using a combination of contemporary interviews, historical photographs and footage, and historical reenactments. It is one of a series of four films produced by the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai'i about the internment experience in each of the …

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av Yankee Samurai (ddr-densho-1024-44)

Israeli produced film on the exploits of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team told through archival footage, interviews, and contemporary footage of battle locations, including scenes of veterans returning to the Vosges Mountains in France for the unveiling of a monument. See this item in the Densho Resource Guide at: Yankee Samurai. See this item in …

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av Great Grandfather's Drum (ddr-densho-1024-45)

Documentary film that tells the story of Japanese Americans in Maui through the story of Maui Taiko and its founder, Kay Fukumoto. See this item in the Densho Resource Guide at: Great Grandfather's Drum. See this item in the Digital Library of the Japanese American Incarceration Films at: https://archive.org/details/ddr-densho-1024-45. Great Grandfather's Drum is copyright …

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av Spark Matsunaga: Warrior Poet (Abridged Version) (ddr-densho-1024-47)

See this item in the Digital Library of the Japanese American Incarceration Films at: https://archive.org/details/ddr-densho-1024-47.

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av Spark Matsunaga: Warrior Poet (Longer Docudrama) (ddr-densho-1024-48)

After growing up in poverty on Kaua`i, Spark Masayuki Matsunaga became a warrior and a poet. A decorated veteran, he served 14 years in the US House and 13 years in the US Senate. He advocated for equality for all and, having tasted the bitterness of war, always strove to find ever-lasting peace.\n\n\nHe is a beloved …

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av Sagebrush Santa Christmas, 1942 in the Minidoka Internment Camp (ddr-densho-1024-49)

See this item in the Digital Library of the Japanese American Incarceration Films at: https://archive.org/details/ddr-densho-1024-49.

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av Reflections on Minidoka (Redone Version) (ddr-densho-1024-50)

See this item in the Digital Library of the Japanese American Incarceration Films at: https://archive.org/details/ddr-densho-1024-50.

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av December 7, 1941 An Eyewitness to the Attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (ddr-densho-1024-51)

See this item in the Digital Library of the Japanese American Incarceration Films at: https://archive.org/details/ddr-densho-1024-51.

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av Double Solitaire (ddr-densho-1024-52)

A 1997 documentary film that uses the motif of games to examine how the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans affected the lives of two "ordinary" people, the filmmaker's Sansei uncles Norm and Stan. Described as "all American" guys who lived in the Amache concentration camp as children, they don't believe that the experience affected …

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av Children of the Camps (ddr-densho-1024-53)

Documentary film that explores the long term impact of the wartime incarceration on those who were children at the time. Much of the film documents a three-day workshop that brings together former child inmates for co-counseling sessions in which they discuss often repressed memories of the incarceration and its aftermath. See this item in the Densho …

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av From a Silk Cocoon (ddr-densho-1024-54)

Documentary film recounting the wartime story of a Kibei couple, Itaru and Shizuko Ina and their two young children as reconstructed by their daughter Satsuki Ina. Ina and co-directors Emery Clay III and Stephen Holsapple tell the story largely through the couple's own words in the form of Shizuko's diary and letters to each other when …

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av American Fish (ddr-densho-1024-55)

Short dramatic film about two Nisei women who run into each other at a grocery store and the dance that ensues when neither can remember who the other is. Humorous at first, the tone shifts when one asks about "camp" and other replies that she was in Tule Lake , invoking stereotypes of the camp and …

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