Films of Remembrance
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Season 3 Episode 1 – FIlms of Remembrance Preview
February 15, 2024 by Greg Viloria
In this episode, we preview the upcoming Nichi Bei Foundation’s Films of Remembrance. Premiering Thursday, February 15, 2024, 6 p.m. on the Nichi Bei Foundation Facebook and YouTube channels. This […] READ MORE
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Violinist’s journey connects WWII incarceration with the present
February 15, 2024 by Akira Olivia Kumamoto, Nichi Bei News
From the inside of a former barrack at the Heart Mountain, Wyo. concentration camp, to the frozen landscape of Jerome, Arkansas, the rich, haunting sound of Kaoru Ishibashi’s violin resonates […] READ MORE
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Deaths in family lead filmmaker on a journey of discovery
February 15, 2024 by Soji Kashiwagi, Nichi Bei News
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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Four artistic perspectives on wartime incarceration and its consequences
February 15, 2024 by Tomo Hirai, Nichi Bei News
Art can explore and convey history, whether to soften the pain it evokes to recall difficult times or to entice a new generation to learn more. The “Artistic Interpretations” block […] READ MORE
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Yonsei filmmaker honors his grandfather in ‘Nisei’
February 15, 2024 by Soji Kashiwagi, Nichi Bei News
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.
February 15, 2024 by Soji Kashiwagi, Nichi Bei News
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’
February 15, 2024 by Soji Kashiwagi, Nichi Bei News
“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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13th annual Films of Remembrance Feb. 24-25 in S.F., San Jose Japantowns
February 1, 2024 by Nichi Bei News
Films of Remembrance, a showcase of films on the forced incarceration of Japanese Americans in American concentration camps during World War II, will be held Feb. 24 at the AMC […] READ MORE
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苦難と希望の歴史を描く映画 長編と短編、計12作品を上映
February 1, 2024 by Nichi Bei Japanese Section
第二次世界大戦中、収容所に強制移送された日系アメリカ人。その苦難の歴史を中心に日系人の抵抗と希望などを描いた長編と短編、計12作品を上映する映画祭「Films of Remembrance」が２月24日（土）と25日（日）に開催される。 READ MORE
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BACK IN THEATERS: 12th annual Films of Remembrance
March 30, 2023 by Tomo Hirai, Nichi Bei News
Following two years of online-only programming, the Nichi Bei Foundation held its 12th annual Films of Remembrance film series in person at the AMC Kabuki 8 in San Francisco’s Japantown […] READ MORE
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