Richard Imamura
Richard Imamura is a longtime editor/journalist and a writer in the entertainment industry. Starting with local newspapers (South Bay Daily Breeze, Gardena Valley News), he went on to become the first (and only) Asian-American editor of a major international music industry trade magazine (Cashbox) and the founding editor of Inside Kung-Fu magazine. In the film industry, he has extensive experience as a writer in independent production.
Updated April 2013
Stories from This Author
Behind the Scenes of "The Manzanar Fishing Club": Bringing the Issei Back to Life
April 16, 2013 • Richard Imamura
It’s pretty much standard procedure among filmmakers to embrace favorable reviews and pretend the bad ones never happened. Oftentimes it’s ego, at other times business; but every now and then, the critic affirms what you set out to do…and that’s how I felt when Tom Keogh of the Seattle Times wrote: “Proving that sometimes the best way to grasp a big narrative is through a deceptively narrow approach, this labor of love by writer Richard Imamura and director Cory Shiozaki…takes …
