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‘Kintsukuroi,’ feature film about JA experience, coming to Sacramento June 30
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Of all the films Nikkei writer/director Kerwin Berk has made, he says his latest film, “Kintsukuroi,” is by far his most rewarding due to the participation of an almost all-Nikkei […] READ MORE
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‘Visionary’ artist and activist Miyamoto’s life of ‘groundbreaking cultural work’ screens in SF, LA
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At the beginning of the documentary film about her life, Nobuko Miyamoto, looking a bit shy and self-conscious, smiles at the camera and says, “I’m Nobuko Miyamoto. What else do […] READ MORE
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The Shōya House: A 320-year journey back in time to Edo, Japan
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SAN MARINO, Calif. — Since last October, thousands of visitors have been totally immersed in the sights, smells, culture, history and beauty of Japan — all without having to go […] READ MORE
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Deaths in family lead filmmaker on a journey of discovery
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For the longest time, Sansei filmmaker Barbara Kagawa Shore was bothered by the fact that two of her family members died in camp, but no one would tell her how […] READ MORE
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Yonsei filmmaker honors his grandfather in ‘Nisei’
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Describing it as a “love letter to my family,” Yonsei producer/director Darren Haruo Rae honors his grandfather and members of the 442nd Regimental Combat with “Nisei” (2023, 21 min.), a […] READ MORE
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‘Community in Conflict’ focuses on fight over a historical marker in Santa Fe, N.M.
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Back in 1999, community leaders set out to create a historical marker acknowledging the 4,555 Nikkei men who were imprisoned at the World War II internment camp in Santa Fe, […] READ MORE
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Playing America’s pastime in camp is the focus of ‘Baseball Behind Barbed Wire’
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“If you build it, they will come.”— “Field of Dreams” (1999) For two weeks in 1942, Kenichi Zenimura was in a state of depression.He and his family had just been […] READ MORE
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Grateful Crane uplifts spirits of disaster survivors in Tohoku, Japan
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In October at a public housing facility in Fukushima, Japan, an elderly Japanese man entered the room wearing the LA Dodgers cap we gave him five years ago. No longer […] READ MORE
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Kishi Bashi finds himself in ‘Omoiyari’ documentary
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For those familiar with “camp” films, much of the archival footage and photos in the documentary song film “Omoiyari” are not new, but what make this new work absolutely unique […] READ MORE
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Japanese Institute of Sawtelle: Honoring its past with a vision toward the future
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LOS ANGELES — Nearly 100 years ago, an Issei named Gisuke Sakamoto founded the Japanese Institute of Sawtelle, and began teaching the Japanese language to four students out of his […] READ MORE
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