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Behind the Scenes of "The Manzanar Fishing Club": Bringing the Issei Back to Life
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 a unique angle on the human (and American) craving for freedom.”
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