FINDING HOME DOCUMENTARY ABOUT JAPANESE AMERICANS TO SCREEN IN JAPAN IN JUNE 2007

Film & Other Media

In Person

various

Date: June 15, 2007 – June 17, 2007

Finding Home is a fifty-two minute documentary by Art Nomura. The sansei Director/Producer will personally present Finding Home in three Tokyo venues in June 2007. He will conduct Q & A sessions about the documentary and present excerpts from his upcoming book, Finding Home: Japanese Americans Living in Japan. Screening sponsors, venues, dates, and times are as follows:

Ajiakei Amerikajin Kenkyukai and Meiji Center for International Programs
Liberty Tower, Room 1155, 15th floor
Meiji University
1-1 Kanda-Surugadai, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-8301
(access from JR Ochanomizu station or Hanzoman, Toei Shinjuku, Toei Mita subway lines)
June 15, 2007, Friday
6:30 – 9:00 pm

Iminkenkyukai
Tsuda Hall, Room T105 (see website for directions: tsudahall.com/THHP2/mainindex.htm)
June 16, 2007, Saturday
7:00 – 9:00 pm

Japanese American Citizen’s League (JACL) - Japan Chapter
Kyurian, Fifth floor, Room Dai 3
Map - www.shinagawa-culture.or.jp/
5-18-1 Higashi Oimachi, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 140-0011
(if lost, you can call Kyurian at 03-5479-4100)
June 17, 2007, Sunday
7:00 – 9:00 pm

Nomura will also be present at the screening of Finding Home (with Japanese sub-titles) at the Fukuoka Asian Film Festival, June 29 – July 1, 2007. Please contact S. Maeda at faff@gol.com for specific screening information. Excerpts from the documentary and book will also be presented at the Asian Studies Conference Japan (ASCJ), June 23 - 24 at Meiji Gakuin University (Shirokane, Tokyo campus) on a panel entitled For Love or Money: Nikkei Assimilation in Contemporary Japan. Please go to www.meijigakuin.ac.jp for additional panel and conference information.

Finding Home is about Japanese Americans who have decided to live in Japan rather than America. It examines what they have gained and lost with this decision. The six Japanese Americans interviewed were selected from an initial pool of fifty. Comments about lifestyle, identity, and personal evolution provide fresh insight into the expatriate experience of those who have chosen to live in their ancestral homeland. Additionally Nomura, a first-time visitor to Japan at age fifty-seven, shares his impressions of Japan throughout the documentary. With the support of a Fulbright Research Grant, Nomura spent the fall/winter of 2003 producing this project.

Finding Home is an official selection of the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, the Rhode Island International Film Festival, the Dallas Video Fest, the DisOrient Film Festival and the Fukuoka Asian Film Festival. Art Nomura is a Professor in the School of Film and Television at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. Please visit www.artnomura.com for more information about the artist and his work.
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