Screening of the Japanese American documentary "FINDING HOME": Tokyo, June 2007

Date: June 15, 2007 – June 17, 2007

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"Finding Home" is a 52-minute documentary directed and produced by Art Nomura, a third-generation Japanese American. Three screenings of his work "Finding Home" will be held in Tokyo in June 2007. At the screenings, there will be a Q&A session about the work, and he will also talk about his upcoming book "Finding Home: Japanese Americans Living in Japan." Details of the screenings are as follows:

Friday, June 15, 2007 6:30– 9:00 pm Asian American Studies Group Meiji University International Programs Liberty Tower, 15th floor, room 1155 Meiji University 1-1 Kanda Surugadai, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-8301 Saturday, June 16, 2007 7:00 – 9:00 pm Immigration Studies Group Tsuda Hall, room T105 ( http://tsudahall.com/THHP2/mainindex.htm ) Sunday, June 17, 2007 7:00 – 9:00 pm Japanese American Citizens League, Japan Chapter Curian, 5th floor, room 3 Map - http://www.shinagawa-culture.or.jp/curian/index.html 5-18-1 Higashioicho, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 140-0011 (If you are unsure, please call Curian at 03-5479-4100.)

"Finding Home," directed by Nomura, will be shown at the Fukuoka Asian Film Festival (June 29-July 1, 2007), and Nomura will be attending the event. For more information about the screening, please contact S.Maeda. He will also be attending the Asian American Studies Society to be held at Meiji Gakuin University (Shirokane Campus) on June 23-24, and will be a panelist in the panel discussion "For Love or Money: Nikkei Assimilation in Contemporary Japan." Details are available at http://www.meijigakuin.ac.jp/~ascj/ . "Finding Home" is a documentary about Japanese Americans who decided to live in Japan instead of the United States where they were born and raised, and what they gained and lost as a result. The film is written in the form of interviews with six Japanese Americans selected from 50 people, who talk about their lifestyles, identities, and insights they gained from their experience living in Japan, their own home country. Nomura, who visited his home country for the first time at age 57, answers questions about his own experiences and thoughts in the film. With the support of a Fulbright Scholarship, Nomura made the film during the fall and winter of 2003. "Finding Home" is an official selection of the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, the Rhode Island International Film Festival, the Dallas Video Festival, the Dis-Orient Film Festival, and the Fukuoka Asian Film Festival. The film's director, Art Nomura, is currently a professor in the Film and Television Department at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. For more information on his background and work, please visit www.artnomura.com

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