List of films about the Japanese American internment
Feature films about the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans include:
Feature films
[edit]- American Pastime (2007) Focuses on internees' use of baseball as a source of entertainment while living in camp[citation needed]
- Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
- Come See the Paradise (1990) Follows an interracial family separated by the wartime incarceration program[citation needed]
- Day of Independence (2003) A Nisei teen immerses himself in baseball after his parents decide to return to Japan rather than remain in camp in the U.S.[1]
- Farewell to Manzanar (1976) Made-for-television adaptation of Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston's memoirs of her time in the Manzanar internment camp
- Forgotten Valor (2001) Written and directed by Lane Nishikawa, a Nisei veteran remembers his experiences during World War II[citation needed]
- Go for Broke! (1951) Based on the real-life story of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, a segregated army unit of Japanese American men, many of whom served while their families were incarcerated on the home front
- Go for Broke: An Origin Story (2018) Follows a group of University of Hawaii ROTC students during the tumultuous year after the attack on Pearl Harbor, as they navigate wartime Hawaii and fight discrimination. Adaptation of the comic book by Stacey Hayashi[citation needed]
- Hell to Eternity (1960) Biopic about Guy Gabaldon, a Mexican American Marine who was adopted by a Japanese American family at age 12 and went on to serve in World War II while his adoptive family was interned in Manzanar
- If Tomorrow Comes (1971) Made-for-TV movie following the romance between a Nisei man and a white woman at the start of World War II[2]
- 99 Years of Love 〜Japanese Americans〜 (2010)
- Kommando 1944 (2018)
- Only the Brave (2006)
- Snow Falling on Cedars (1999) Adaptation of the novel by David Guterson[citation needed]
- Stand Up for Justice: The Ralph Lazo Story (2004)
- Strawberry Fields (1997)
- The Magic of Ordinary Days (2005)
- Under the Blood Red Sun (2014) A 13 yr old Japanese boy faces monumental adversity in 1941 Hawaii, when the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor. Adaptation of the novel by Graham Salisbury[citation needed]
Documentary films
[edit]| Title | Release Year | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 442: For the Future[3] | 1997 | Patricia Kinaga |
| 442: Live with Honor, Die with Dignity[4][5] | 2010 | Junichi Suzuki |
| After Silence: Civil Rights and the Japanese American Experience[6] | 2003 | Louis Shelton |
| All We Could Carry[7] | 2011 | Steven Okazaki |
| America at Its Best: Legacy of Two Nisei Patriots[8] | 2001 | Vince Matsuidaira, Nisei Veterans Committee of Seattle |
| And Then They Came for Us[9] | 2017 | Abby Ginzberg and Ken Schneider (filmmaker) |
| The Art of Gaman: The Story Behind the Objects[10] | 2010 | Rick Quan |
| Beyond Barbed Wire[11] | 1997 | Steve Rosen, Terri DeBono |
| Camp Amache: The Story of an American Tragedy [12] | 2007 | Don and Sandy Dexter |
| The Cats of Mirikitani | 2006 | Linda Hattendorf |
| Caught in Between: What to Call Home in Times of War[13] | 2004 | Lina Hoshino |
| A Challenge to Democracy | 1943 | |
| ALTERNATIVE FACTS: The Lies of Executive Order 9066[14][15] | 2019 | Jon Osaki and Lauren Kawana |
| Children of the Camps[16] | 1999 | |
| Citizen Tanouye[17] | 2005 | Robert Horsting, Craig Yahata |
| The Color of Honor: The Japanese American Soldier in WWII[18] | 1987 | Loni Ding |
| Conscience and the Constitution [19] | 2000 | Frank Abe |
| Days of Waiting | 1990 | Steven Okazaki |
| Dear Miss Breed[20] | 2000 | Veronica Ko |
| Democracy Under Pressure: Japanese Americans and World War II[21] | 2000 | Jeffrey S. Betts |
| A Divided Community[22] | 2012 | Momo Yashima |
| Double Solitaire | 1997 | Corey Ohama |
| Emi[23] | 1979 | Frank Nesbitt, Michael Toshiyuki Ono |
| Encounter with the Past: American Japanese Internment in World War II[24] | 1980 | Tak Shindo |
| Enemy Alien[25] | 2011 | Konrad Aderer |
| The Empty Chair[citation needed] | 2014 | Greg Chaney |
| Family Gathering | 1988 | |
| Farewell to Manzanar | 1973 | |
| A Flicker in Eternity[26] | 2013 | Ann Kaneko, Sharon Yamato |
| Forced Out: Internment and the Enduring Damage to California Cities and Towns[27] | 2003 | KVIE |
| Forsaken Fields[28] | 2001 | Midori Sperandeo |
| From a Silk Cocoon[29] | 2006 | Satsuki Ina |
| Fumiko Hayashida: The Woman Behind the Symbol[30] | 2009 | Lucy Ostrander |
| Furusato: The Lost Village of Terminal Island[31] | 2005 | David Meltzer |
| Gila River and Mama: The Ruth Mix Story[32] | 2011 | Claire Mix |
| Guilty by Reason of Race[33] | 1972 | NBC |
| Heart Mountain: Three Years in an Internment Camp[34] | 1994 | Dianne Fukami |
| Hidden Internment: The Art Shibayama Story[35] | 2004 | Casey Peek, Irum Shiekh |
| History and Memory: For Akiko and Takashige | 1992 | Rea Tajiri |
| The Idaho Homefront: Of Camps and Combat[36] | 2007 | Jim Peck |
| In Time Of War[37] | 2004 | Andrea Palpant |
| Interactions[38] | 2000 | Justin Lin |
| Japanese Relocation | 1942 | Office of War Information |
| Jimmy Murakami—Enemy Alien | 2010 | Sé Merry Doyle |
| Justice Betrayed | 1992 | Gordon Lee, Honolulu JACL |
| The Legacy of Heart Mountain | 2014 | David Ono and Jeff MacIntyre |
| Life Interrupted: Reunion and Remembrance in Arkansas[39] | 2006 | Japanese American National Museum |
| Manzanar | 1972 | Robert A. Nakamura |
| Manzanar Fishing Club | 2012 | Cory Shiozaki |
| Meeting at Tule Lake | 1994 | Scott T. Tsuchitani |
| Most Honorable Son[40] | 2007 | Bill Kubota |
| The Music Man of Manzanar[41] | 2005 | Brian T. Maeda |
| Nebraska's Nisei | 1998 | University of Nebraska |
| The Nisei: The Pride and the Shame | 1965 | CBS |
| Nisei Soldier: Standard Bearer for an Exiled People | 1983 | Loni Ding |
| Of Civil Wrongs and Rights: The Fred Korematsu Story | 2000 | Eric Paul Fournier |
| Passing Poston | 2008 | Joe Fox |
| A Personal Matter: Gordon Hirabayashi vs. the United States | 1992 | John de Graaf |
| Pilgrimage | 2006 | Tad Nakamura |
| Prejudice and Patriotism: Americans of Japanese Ancestry in the Military Intelligence Service of WWII | 1998 | |
| Prisoners and Patriots: The Untold Story of Japanese Internment in Santa Fe | 2011 | Neil H. Simon |
| Rabbit in the Moon | 1999 | Emiko Omori |
| Relocation, Arkansas[citation needed] | 2015 | Vivienne Schiffer |
| Remembering Manzanar | 2004 | National Park Service |
| Rescued By Fate | 2014 | Christopher HK Lee |
| Return to the Valley: Japanese American Experience After WWII | 2003 | Scott Gracheff |
| Searchlight Serenade | 2012 | Claire Reynolds |
| Shikata Ga Nai: An Inconvenient American[42] | 2019 | Lauren Yanase |
| The Silent Glory | 2000 | Zed Merrill |
| Something Strong Within | 1994 | Japanese American National Museum |
| Stand Up for Justice: The Ralph Lazo Story | 2004 | John Esaki |
| Take Me Home: A Child's Experience of Internment | 2005 | David Tanner, Andrea Palpant |
| Tanforan: From Race Track to Assembly Center | 1994 | Dianne Fukami |
| Time of Fear | 2004 | Sue Williams |
| To Be Takei | 2014 | |
| Topaz | 1945 | |
| Topaz | 1988 | KUED |
| Toyo's Camera: Japanese American History During WWII | 2009 | Junichi Suzuki |
| Unfinished Business | 1985 | Steven Okazaki |
| The Untold Story: Internment of Japanese Americans in Hawai‘i | 2012 | Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai‘i |
| When You're Smiling: The Deadly Legacy of Internment | 1999 | Janice D. Tanaka |
| Winter in My Soul | 1986 | Bob Nellis, KTWO |
| Without Due Process: A Documentary about America's Concentration Camps | 2001 | Brian Beanblossom |
| Valor With Honor[43] | 2008 | Burt Takeuchi |
| Visible Target | 1985 | Cris Anderson, John de Graaf |
| Yankee Samurai | 1985 | Katriel Schory |
| Yuri Kochiyama: Passion for Justice[44] | 1993 | Pat Saunders, Rea Tajiri |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Day of Independence official website
- ^ Brian Niiya, "If Tomorrow Comes" Densho Encyclopedia
- ^ Niiya, Brian. "442: For the Future (film)". Densho. Retrieved March 21, 2018.
- ^ "Movie Review: 442-LIVE WITH HONOR; DIE WITH DIGNITY". Hawaii News Now. Retrieved 2018-01-17.
- ^ Adams, Mark (November 3, 2010). "442 – Live With Honor, Die With Dignity". Screen Daily. Retrieved 2018-01-17.
- ^ Gerster, Carole; Zlogar, Laura W. (2006-01-02). Teaching Ethnic Diversity with Film: Essays and Resources for Educators in History, Social Studies, Literature and Film Studies. McFarland. p. 122. ISBN 9780786421954.
- ^ "All We Could Carry". FARALLON FILMS. Archived from the original on February 23, 2017. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
- ^ Niiya, Brian. "America at its Best: Legacy of Two Nisei Patriots (film)". Densho. Retrieved March 21, 2018.
- ^ "And Then They Came for Us". 2019. Retrieved 2020-11-14.
- ^ "The Art of Gaman: Arts and Crafts from the Japanese American Internment Camps, 1942-1946 (exhibition) | Densho Encyclopedia". encyclopedia.densho.org. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
- ^ McCarthy, Todd (1997-07-20). "Beyond Barbed Wire". Variety. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
- ^ "Camp Amache: The Story of an American Tragedy with producer/authors Don & Sandy Dexter | Pueblo City-County Library District". www.pueblolibrary.org. Archived from the original on October 9, 2012. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
- ^ "Caught in Between: What to Call Home in Times of War | UC Berkeley Library". www.lib.berkeley.edu. Archived from the original on February 11, 2018. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
- ^ "ALTERNATIVE FACTS: The Lies of Executive Order 9066". New Day Films. 2019-11-10. Retrieved 2021-01-07.
- ^ "Home". ALTERNATIVEFACTS9066. Retrieved 2021-01-07.
- ^ "Children of the Camps: the Japanese American WWII internment camp experience". www.pbs.org. Archived from the original on December 3, 2017. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
- ^ Horsting, Robert. "Citizen Tanouye". www.citizentanouye.com. Archived from the original on September 29, 2017. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
- ^ "The Color of Honor - Japanese Americans and World War II internment film". www.cetel.org. Archived from the original on January 12, 2017. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
- ^ "Conscience And The Constitution (DVD)". Japanese American National Museum Store. Archived from the original on September 23, 2015. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
- ^ "1a". pages.gseis.ucla.edu. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
- ^ Niiya, Brian. "Democracy Under Pressure: Japanese Americans and World War II (film)". Densho.
- ^ "Film Screening of "A Divided Community" & Discussion with Filmmaker Momo Yashima". Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change. 2016-02-12. Archived from the original on February 28, 2018. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
- ^ Ling, Huping (2015-03-17). Asian American history and culture : an encyclopedia. Austin, Allan W. ([Enhanced Credo edition] ed.). Armonk, New York: Routledge. p. 45. ISBN 978-1317476450. OCLC 889717915.
- ^ Shindo, Tak (1980), Encounter with the past: American-Japanese internment in World War II, Eurasia Publications, OCLC 8741684
- ^ Aderer, Konrad; Abdel-Muhti, Farouk; Darmi, Peter; Third World Newsreel (Firm) (2011), Enemy alien, OCLC 753869306
- ^ "A Flicker in Eternity--Stanley Hayami (DVD)". Japanese American National Museum Store. Archived from the original on April 1, 2016. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
- ^ Hosley, David H; Mastrandrea, James; Gravitt, Corita; Johnson, Mark; Yanehiro, Jan; Osaki, Paul; Honnami, Sumi; Maeda, Wayne; Komai, Chris (2003), Forced out: [internment and the enduring damage to California's cities and towns, KVIE, OCLC 61671981
- ^ "Forsaken Fields – CAAM Home". caamedia.org. Archived from the original on April 15, 2016. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
- ^ "From a Silk Cocoon - A Japanese American Renunciation Story". www.fromasilkcocoon.com. Archived from the original on September 15, 2017. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
- ^ Wakida, Patricia. "Fumiko Hayashida: The Woman Behind the Symbol (film)". Densho.
- ^ "Furusato: The Lost Village of Terminal Island (DVD)". Japanese American National Museum Store. Archived from the original on August 15, 2016. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
- ^ Niiya, Brian. "Gila River and Mama: The Ruth Mix Story (film)". Densho.
- ^ National Broadcasting Company (1972), Guilty by reason of race., retrieved 2018-03-22
- ^ "Heart Mountain: Three Years In An Internment Camp – CAAM Home". caamedia.org. Archived from the original on April 15, 2016. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
- ^ Wakida, Patricia. "Hidden Internment: The Art Shibayama Story (film)". Densho.
- ^ "Idaho Public Television Presents The Idaho Homefront: Of Camps and Combat". idahoptv.org. Archived from the original on September 6, 2015. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
- ^ "In Time of War". CAAM Home. Retrieved 2021-01-07.
- ^ Wakida, Patricia. "Interactions (film)". Densho.
- ^ "Media Arts | Japanese American National Museum". www.janm.org. Retrieved 2021-01-07.
- ^ "Most Honorable Son | PBS". www.pbs.org. 6 September 2015. Retrieved 2021-01-07.
- ^ "The Music Man of Manzanar (film) - Densho Resource Guide". resourceguide.densho.org. Retrieved 2021-01-07.
- ^ "SHIKATA GA NAI: AN INCONVENIENT AMERICAN - YouTube". www.youtube.com. Archived from the original on 2021-12-14. Retrieved 2021-01-07.
- ^ "Valor with Honor Website". www.valorwithhonor.com. Archived from the original on 2013-03-12. Retrieved 2021-01-07.
- ^ "Women Make Movies Website". wmm.com. Retrieved 2022-05-08.