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Beyond Pop Culture: A Powerful Message of Self-Acceptance

Movies have long held unique power: to not only entertain but also give a “reality check” for the t…

Vaishnavi Kulkarni • April 20, 2025

culture film directors films high schools identity Japan J-pop (music) K-pop (music) popular music schools South Korea teenagers

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

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Her Name Tag Reads “Friend of the Vets”: Stacey Hayashi Shares Stories of da Nisei Veterans

In high school Stacey Hayashi, 49, remembahs reading just one tiny paragraph in her textbook abou…

Lee A. Tonouchi • March 5, 2025

100th Infantry Battalion 442nd Regimental Combat Team artists books comics film directors filmmakers films Go for Broke! (film) Hawai'i library materials picture books publications United States United States Army World War II

Kokoro (心) Film Festival 2024: Heart, Mind, Spirit of Generations

When one thinks about film festivals in Canada, the Toronto International Film Festival might first…

Catherine Jo Ishino • Jan. 9, 2025

artists filmmakers films film screenings Japanese Canadians

The Last Bugle: Commemorating the 442nd Regimental Combat Team through Film

Filmmaker Burt Takeuchi is creating a web series based on the true story of a renowned Japanese Ame…

Burt Takeuchi • Nov. 23, 2024

442nd Regimental Combat Team filmmakers films United States Army web series World War II

Nikkei family history written in film: Okaeri: The Spy of the Rising Sun

Noriko, Camila’s grandmother, keeps saying “my parents would be very happy” when her granddaughter …

Hiro Ramos Nako • Aug. 13, 2024

Camila Murayama Tagami deportations films genealogy Japanese Peruvians Peru 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

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