Japanese American Internment Movies

  • 2009
    Half Kenneth

    Half Kenneth

    Half Kenneth

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    1945: after the death of his father, Ken escapes Japanese American internment camp to find his Caucasian mother who lives in town. Things become...

    Half Kenneth
  • 2016
    Allegiance

    Allegiance

    Allegiance

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

    Allegiance
  • 2017
    A Bitter Legacy

    A Bitter Legacy

    A Bitter Legacy

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

    A Bitter Legacy
  • 1976
    Farewell to Manzanar

    Farewell to Manzanar

    Farewell to Manzanar

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    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...

    Farewell to Manzanar
  • 1991
    History and Memory: For Akiko and Takashige

    History and Memory: For Akiko and Takashige

    History and Memory: For Akiko and Takashige

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    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...

    History and Memory: For Akiko and Takashige
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2009
    Fumiko Hayashida: The Woman Behind the Symbol

    Fumiko Hayashida: The Woman Behind the Symbol

    Fumiko Hayashida: The Woman Behind the Symbol

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    Fumiko Hayashida: The Woman Behind the Symbol is both a historical portrait of Fumiko, her family and the Bainbridge Island Japanese American...

    Fumiko Hayashida: The Woman Behind the Symbol
  • 2017
    Resistance at Tule Lake

    Resistance at Tule Lake

    Resistance at Tule Lake

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    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....

    Resistance at Tule Lake
  • 1995
    The Shadow of Hate: A History of Intolerance in America

    The Shadow of Hate: A History of Intolerance in America

    The Shadow of Hate: A History of Intolerance in America

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    The film expresses the history of oppression, discrimination, violence and hate in America. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best...

    The Shadow of Hate: A History of Intolerance in America
  • 1999
    Children of the Camps

    Children of the Camps

    Children of the Camps

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

    Children of the Camps
  • 1999
    Old Man River

    Old Man River

    Old Man River

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    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...

    Old Man River
  • 2014
    Under the Blood-Red Sun

    Under the Blood-Red Sun

    Under the Blood-Red Sun

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    December 7, 1941 - TOMIKAZU “TOMI” NAKAJI (Kyler Ki Sakamoto) and his best friend BILLY DAVIS (Kalama Epstein) are playing baseball in a...

    Under the Blood-Red Sun
  • 2022
    Omoiyari

    Omoiyari

    Omoiyari

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

    Omoiyari
  • 2023
    Kintsugi

    Kintsugi

    Kintsugi

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

    Kintsugi
  • 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
  • 2023
    The Chest of Ryou

    The Chest of Ryou

    The Chest of Ryou

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    Amid the hysteria of World War II, a Chinese-American private investigator meets with a Japanese-American client and must choose between his desire...

    The Chest of Ryou
  • 1998
    Double Solitaire

    Double Solitaire

    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...

    Double Solitaire
  • 2015
    Changing Season

    Changing Season

    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...

    Changing Season
  • 1970
    Enemy Alien

    Enemy Alien

    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.

    Enemy Alien