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Kokoro (心) Film Festival 2024: Heart, Mind, Spirit of Generations

When one thinks about film festivals in Canada, the Toronto International Film Festival might first…

Catherine Jo Ishino • Jan. 9, 2025

artists filmmakers films film screenings Japanese Canadians

The House I Live In: Frank Sinatra and Japanese Americans

Archival research is often like gambling; either you get boxes of files that either contain golden …

Jonathan van Harmelen • Jan. 31, 2024

442nd Regimental Combat Team Frank Sinatra Japanese Americans postwar resettlement race relations The House I Live In (film) tolerance United States United States Army War Relocation Authority World War II

Nikkei film audiovisual creators

Today's world is a movie. Everyone consumes, through cinema, digital platforms and other media, dif…

Javier García Wong-Kit • Dec. 6, 2023

documentaries films Kaori Flores Yonekura Peru producers

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Interpreting Lost in Translation 20 years later

I get it. I understand. Traveling to someplace you’ve never been, where the culture and language is…

Gil Asakawa • Nov. 30, 2023

stereotypes

Beyond Shogun: James Clavell's Japanese American History

The late author and screenwriter James Clavell is best remembered these days for his series of be…

Greg Robinson • Nov. 14, 2023

authors history Japanese Americans prisoners prisoners of war The Sweet and the Bitter (film)

One Fighting Irishman — A Conversation With Filmmaker Sharon Yamato

Wayne Mortimer Collins is an important name for my family. I first learned about this heroic, brash…

Tamiko Nimura • Oct. 17, 2023

California civil rights concentration camps documentaries filmmakers films Japanese American National Museum Japanese American National Museum (organization) lawyers One Fighting Irishman (film) renunciation Sharon Yamato Tule Lake concentration camp Tule Lake Segregation Center United States Wayne Merrill Collins Wayne Mortimer Collins World War II camps

Wisdom Grown Wild: A Conversation with Filmmaker Rea Tajiri — Part 3

Read Part 2 >> TN: Do you think you make art as a way to fill in those gaps or to speak to these s…

Tamiko Nimura • Sept. 10, 2023

dementia documentaries families films generations mothers Nisei Rea Tajiri Wisdom Gone Wild (film)

Wisdom Grown Wild: A Conversation with Filmmaker Rea Tajiri — Part 2

Read Part 1 >> TN: I’ve been starting to think about what it is to write memoir and I’ve really fe…

Tamiko Nimura • Sept. 3, 2023

dementia documentaries families films generations mothers Nisei Rea Tajiri Wisdom Gone Wild (film)

Wisdom Grown Wild: A Conversation with Filmmaker Rea Tajiri — Part 1

In Rea Tajiri’s documentary Wisdom Gone Wild, an elderly Nisei woman is sitting outside in a whee…

Tamiko Nimura • Aug. 27, 2023

dementia documentaries families films generations mothers Nisei Rea Tajiri Wisdom Gone Wild (film)

Sojin Kamiyama: The Man they called Sôjin

Among all the Japanese actors who graced Hollywood screens in the silent and early sound eras, perh…

Greg Robinson • July 12, 2023

acting actors artists Chie Mita entertainers films generations Hollywood films immigrants immigration Issei Japan migration silent films Sojin Kamiyama theaters (building)

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