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Yurei : the ghosts of Japanese immigration to Mexico

Yurei ( Ghosts ) is memory, silences, nostalgia and secrets. The documentary directed by Mexican …

Enrique Higa Sakuda • March 18, 2025

Dahil Melgar documentaries filmmakers films immigration Japanese Mexicans World War II

Kobe Shimada, a film director who moved to the United States in 1999

When I was 25, I suddenly decided to go abroad. I met Kobe at a Japanese company's founding annive…

Keiko Fukuda • July 16, 2024

documentaries film directors films generations Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) immigrants immigration Issei Japan Koby Shimada migration postwar Shin-Issei United States World War II

The Making and Evolution of Yuriko Gamo Romer's Baseball Documentaries: Diamond Diplomacy and Baseball Behind Barbed Wire

Since 1998, Yuriko Gamo Romer’s Flying Carp Productions has been responsible for producing a variet…

Kristopher Kato • May 15, 2024

baseball Baseball Behind Barbed Wire (film) Diamond Diplomacy (documentary) documentaries films Kenichi Zenimura Masanori Murakami Yuriko Gamo Romer

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

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)

Want to make authentic Japanese food? Just One Cookbook’s Nami Chen is here for you

If you’ve ever looked to the internet for a ramen recipe, or maybe some tips on how to brew the per…

Marsha Takeda-Morrison • May 19, 2023

Bizentei (restaurant) Come Back Anytime (film) documentaries films food Japan Just One Cookbook (website) Namiko Chen recipes restaurants Shen Chen

Narumi Ogusuku—Ubiquitous Nikkei Artist

The word ubicua (“ubiquitous”) has two meanings. The second, referring to a person, is: “Someone …

Enrique Higa Sakuda • Feb. 3, 2023

dekasegi documentaries filmmakers films foreign workers generations identity Japan Narumi Ogusuku Nikkei in Japan Peru Peruvians Peruvians in Japan Ubicua (film) Yonsei

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