George Takei hosts MOVING MEMORIES, a journey into the 1920s and 1930s featuring restored and edited home movies taken by Japanese American immigrant pioneers as they made America their new home.
Featuring: George Takei
Created and Edited by Robert A. Nakamura
Produced by the Japanese American National Museum's Frank H. Watase Media Arts Center
An experimental documentary that utilizes home movie footage shot by Japanese Americans living inside America’s concentration camps during WWII, this view from within depicts the struggle of 120,000 souls to overcome betrayal and hardship to reconstruct a community behind barbed wire.
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Written by acclaimed mystery writer Naomi Hirahara, Mamo’s Weeds tells the story of a gardener besieged by a destructive weed epidemic and a series of phone calls from a mysterious woman. Searching for answers, he travels from the Southern California Gardeners’ Federation to a Little Tokyo chop-s...
A series of artist profiles that examine how Japanese American artists determined their particular creative directions in response to a unique set of post World War II social, cultural, and political circumstances.
Whatever form their creativity took, these artists brought fresh and compellin...
