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Film

"Japanese immigrants to the United States and Japanese Movies". This article talks about the impact/role of Japanese movies in the Japanese immigrant society in the U.S. Available only in Japanese.

Organizations

  • Visual Communications, the first Asian Pacific American media arts center, founded in 1970, provides a comprehensive program of production, presentation and preservation of Asian Pacific American media art, including a substantial library of Nikkei resources. Located in Los Angeles.
  • Center for Asian American Media, formerly National Asian American Telecommunications Association] (NAATA). A non-profit organization dedicated to presenting stories that convey the richness and diversity of Asian American experiences to the broadest audience possible. They do this by funding, producing, distributing and exhibiting works in film, television and digital media.
  • Asian Cinevision is a non-profit media arts center in New York, founded in 1976, dedicated to production and preservation of Asian American media.

Film Festivals & Events

  • San Diego Asian Film Festival presents a diverse schedule of Asian Pacific films and videos from around the country, including many works by Nikkei media artists.
  • Chicago Asian American Film Showcase is an annual film & video festival in the midwest region of the United States that presents work by and about Asians and Asian Pacific Americans.

Individual works

  • Fall of the Fujimori (Documentary, 2005)
  • Stranded (2004; Willard Motomura, Director)
Written and directed by Willard Motomura as his MFA project at USC's School of Cinema - Television. The story of two Japanese American GI's fighting in France, in 1944, who stumble upon a wounded German soldier. Their argument over the appropriate course of action is informed both by their battlefield experiences and by the discrimination they faced at home.
エメラルド欧と呼ばれたコロンビアの日本人移民、早田英志（はやた えいし）氏のドキュメンタリー。
The true story of "Emerald King" Eishy Hayata, a Japanese immigrant who established an emerald mining empire in Colombia.
Greg Dean Schmitz, Review.
Gregory Avery, Review.
This film is about "a Japanese American Farmer who comes to a crossroads in his life when he is forced to choose between holding onto the bitterness of his youth and letting go of the past to restore his broken relationship with his wife."
第10回ＦＮＳドキュメンタリー大賞ノミネート作品。沖縄テレビ制作。ベニータ・伊波さんの家族史を通して描くキューバ沖縄移民の歴史を描くドキュメンタリー。
　日系アルゼンチン人を取り上げたドキュメンタリー作品。（柴田実監督）
　The documentary project of the Japanese Immigrants in Argentina "Rinsei". Directed by Minoru Shibata.
朝鮮戦争時に米軍パイロットと結婚して海を渡った戦争花嫁として、アメリカ南部の南部ルイジアナ州へわったった日本人女性ユキエの話。40年後、夫のビジネスがうまくいかず、彼女自身も突然のアルツハイマー病におそわれる。
Love story of a Japanese woman who came over to Louisiana as a war bride, and her American husband. After 40 years, he lost his business and she suffered from Alzheimer's Disease.
Brief story
Release of a new DVD on the experiences of early Japanese women immigrants to Hawaii.
"Minoru Fukushima was a nine-year-old boy living in Vancouver, Canada when Japan's bombing of Pearl Harbor thrust him into a world of racism. He and his family were forced from their home, dispatched to internment camps in the interior of British Columbia and finally deported to Japan. Directed by Michael Fukushima, Minoru's son, the film artfully combines striking animation with archival material. The father's memories, interspersed with the son's voice, weaves a tale of suffering and survival, of a birthright lost and recovered."
This film tells the story of six Japanese women who married Australian servicemen after the Second World War, their efforts to build new lives in Australia, and the challenges they faced in an alien land. (邦題：『八重桜物語-オーストラリアに渡った戦争花嫁たち』)
Profile of Solrun Hoaas, director of the film.
Essay "In Search of the Japanese in Me"
日系ブラジル人コミュニティのドキュメンタリーを作成している岡村淳さんのページ。
This page provides a report of Jun Okamura, who migrated to Brazil and created many documentary films of Brazilian Nikkei society.

Television

(財)放送番組国際交流センター（JAMCO）は、1991年の設立以来毎年、国際シンポジウムを実施。「『日本』を越える日本のテレビドラマ：そのトランスナショナルな意味と影響」をテーマに、第13回シンポジウムが開催され、このリンクはその講演と討論について。
JAMCO (Japan Media Communication Center) sponsors the 13th online international symposium. This symposium will examine the ways in which Japanese TV programs, especially dramas, are received overseas and what influence they exert there, as well as what cultural interaction they give rise to between Japan and the local societies of the countries where they are shown.
  • NikkeiTV.com and RadioNiPPON.com provide English- and Japanese-language coverage of Nikkei-related news, community and cultural events in the Vancouver, British Columbia region.

Individual Television Programs & Series

　 橋田壽賀子原作。ブラジルへ家族と共に移住した姉と日本に残された妹が戦後70年して再会。二人の姉妹の思い出と妹ナツの書いた届かなかった手紙を通し、戦争がひき起こした悲劇と苦労を描き出したドラマ。
"Haru to Natsu: todokanakatta tegami (Haru & Natsu: undelivered letters)". The story of two sisters, Haru and Natsu, who meet again in Japan after 70 years when Haru and her father migrate to Brazil. This drama tells 70 years of their life through their memories and letters. It will be broadcast in Fall 2005.
岡村淳氏によるTVドキュメンタリーリスト
List of documentaries for TV program, created by Jun Okamoto.
  • さくら (NHK)
『さくら』はNHKの朝の連続ドラマシリーズ（2002年4月1日 - 2002年9月28日）。4世のハワイ生まれの日系アメリカ人女性が、1年間中学校で英語を教えるために日本の田舎町へ行く。
"Sakura" was a NHK morning television drama series, broadcast in 2002. It is a story about a yonsei Hawaii-born American woman who went to a rural area of Japan for one year and taught English at a private middle school.
"2000年7月、東京地方裁判所。この日、遠い異国の地から"ある覚悟"を持ってやってきた日本人たちの姿があった。今から半世紀前、海を渡ったドミニカ移民たちである。訴えた相手は、祖国「日本」。2004年10月15日（金）放送のＦＮＮドキュメンタリー大賞ノミネート作品『そこに楽園は無かった～ドミニカ移民苦闘の半世紀～』（鹿児島テレビ放送）＜27時50分～28時45分＞では、なぜ彼らは、祖国を相手に訴訟を起こさなければならなかったのか？彼らを突き動かすその思いとは一体、何かを考える。"

Actors & Media Personalities

  • Sessue Hayakawa, silent film actor
  • Mako (1933-2006), actor
  • Miyoshi Umeki (1929-2007), actor. Umeki was the first Asian to win an Academy Award, for Supporting Actress in Sayonara (1957).
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