Entrevistas

1. Growing up "American"

2. Getting an English Name

3. Losing his sister in camp

4. Introduction to Film

5. Seagulls

6. Leaving Tule Lake

7. Getting Started in Animation

8. First Short Film

9. Teaching English in Japan

10. Animations for the Government

11. The Red Baron

12. Paintings reflecting on camp

13. Reparations

Murakami,Jimmy

(1933 – 2014) Dibujante japonés americano

Introduction to Film

The reason I really took to animation is was the first film I saw was Snow White in camp. You know from all my ten cent saving, of the thing, it only cost ten cents a ticket. You know, so my brother and I we both bought tickets at the mess hall. You know they were selling tickets, you see. But you had to walk all the way, almost across town, to get to the, there's the only color theater, you know, so where they show feature films on sixteen millimeter, you know.

So I, I...my brother and I we bought a ticket and we went to the cinema, or the theater, and I lost my ticket on the way, you know. So I was in tears, I said, my brother said, "I'm going in so you just go home." You know? So I was walking home but I traced, this is the honest truth, I traced my path, I walk, I'm coming back, and I find my ticket on the ground. 'Cause I kinda felt I was pulling some paper or hanky or something out of my pocket and it was, my ticket was there. I ran back. I was just in time to see the film and I saw the Snow White. And I thought, God this was the best thing ever, that I ever seen, and I wanted to be an animator.

películas Segunda Guerra Mundial campos de la Segunda Guerra Mundial

Fecha: June 29, 2012

Zona: California, US

Entrevista: Chris Komai, John Esaki

País: Watase Media Arts Center, Japanese American National Museum

Entrevista

Desde niño, Jimmy Murakami (1933 – 2014) decidió convertirse en un animador de películas al ver los dibujos animados de Disney que eran proyectados a los japoneses que se encontraban en el campo de concentración Tule Lake durante la segunda guerra mundial. Después de asistir al Instituto de Arte Chouinard en Los Ángeles, trabajó como animador para el estudio de animación UPA (United Productions of America). Tiempo después, fundó Murakami Wolf, una compañía que realizó varios comerciales muy conocidos en la década de los 60 y 70. Se convirtió en el director de largometrajes de “When the Wind Blows” (“Cuando el Viento Sopla”) y “The Snowman” (“El Hombre de Nieve”). Después de haber establecido su residencia en Irlanda en los últimos años, Murakami falleció en febrero del 2014 a la edad de 80 años.