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The Cats of Mirikitani by Linda Hattendorf & Masa Yoshikawa, producers
Call Number: N6537 .M5658 C38 2008 [DVD]
"Eighty-year-old Jimmy Mirikitani survived the trauma of WWII internment camps, Hiroshima, and homelessness by creating art. But when 9/11 threatens his life on the New York City streets and a local filmmaker brings him to her home, the two embark on a journey to confront Jimmy's painful past. An intimate exploration of the lingering wounds of war and the healing powers of community and art..."
The untold story internment of Japanese Americans in Hawai'i
Call Number: D769.8.A6U58 2013 [DVD]
Publication Date: 2013
"Within hours of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawai'i authorities arrested several hundred local Japanese on O'ahu, Maui, Hawai'i island and Kaua'i. They were Buddhist priests, Japanese language school officials, newspaper editors, business and community leaders. In total, over 2,000 men and women of Japanese ancestry were arrested, detained and interned at 13 different confinement sites located in Hawai'i. There was no evidence of espionage or sabotage and no charges were ever filed against them. While the story of the 1942 mass round-up, eviction, and imprisonment of Japanese Americans in California, Oregon, and Washington is well documented, very little is known about the Hawai'i internees and their unique experience during World War II."--Container.
Conscience and the Constitution by Frank Abe, producer, director, writer
Call Number: D769.8.A6C66 2011 [DVD]
Americans, organized as the Fair Play Committee, refused to be drafted from the concentration camp at Heart Mountain, Wyoming. Ready to fight, but not before their rights as U.S. citizens were restored and families released. The largest organized resistance to incarceration, leading to the largest trial for draft resistance in U.S. history. Prosecuted as criminals, Japanese American leaders and veterans ostracized them as traitors. The resisters served two years in prison, and for the next 50 were written out of the official history of Japanese America.
Fumiko Hayashida: The Woman Behind the Symbol by Lucy Ostrander, producer, director, writer
Call Number: D769.8 .A6 F86 2009 [DVD]
Story of Fumiko Hayashida, relocated with her family from Bainbridge Island, Washington to the Manzanar relocation camp during World War II and later to Minidoka. A photo of Hayashida and her daughter became a national symbol of the internment experience.
Toyo's Camera: Japanese American History during WWII by Planned, written and directed by Junichi Suzuki
Call Number: D769.8 .A6 T698 2009 [DVD]
While bringing cameras into internment camps was prohibited, one photographer smuggled in his own camera lens and built a camera to take photographs of life behind barbed wires in Manzanar War Relocation Center. That man was photographer Toyo Miyatake. Through an artistic medium, Miyatake captured the devastating conditions during WWII, when Japanese Americans could not belong to Japan or America.
Rabbit in the Moon by Emiko Omori, film maker
Call Number: D769.8.A6R33 2004 [DVD]
A documentary/memoir about the lingering effects of the World War II internment of the Japanese American community. Visually stunning and emotionally compelling, the film examines issues that ultimately created deep rifts within the Japanese American community, reveals the racist subtext of the loyalty questionnaire and exposes the absurdity of the military draft within the camps. These testimonies are linked by the filmmakers' own experiences in the camps and placed in a larger historical context by the director.
The red pines : Japanese-Americans on Bainbridge Island by Ostrander, Lucy (Dir)
Call Number: Central Videos & DVDs ; F900.J3R43 2009 [DVD]
Publication Date: 2009

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Jimmy Murakami: non alien
After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066 violated the Constitution by imprisoning 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry in camps throughout the West for the duration of World War II. This documentary follows acclaimed animator Jimmy T. Murakami’s emotional return to Tule Lake, where he spent part of his childhood along with 18,000 Japanese-American citizens who refused to swear allegiance to the U.S. Along the journey, we learn how the experience affected his development and outlook on life. Despite a successful film career, he felt betrayed by the American government and searched for a new home in Japan and Europe before settling permanently in Ireland. The film includes archival footage and Murakami’s own paintings of life in Tule Lake.
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Seattle Colleges Japanese American Day of Remembrance 2022
On February 17, 2022, we mark the 80th anniversary of the signing of Executive Order 9066, the act of President Franklin D. Roosevelt that led to the forced removal and incarceration of over 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II. The 2022 event features Frank Abe, author of We Hereby Refuse and Erin Shigaki, a community artist.
Resistance at Tule Lake (broadcast version)
Resistance at Tule Lake, afeature-length documentary from Third World Newsreel and directed by Japanese American filmmaker Konrad Aderer, tells the l story of Tule Lake Segregation Center and the 12,000 Japanese Americans who dared to resist the U.S. government's program of mass incarceration during World War II.

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