Films focusing on the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II will be showcased at the fifth annual Films of Remembrance, presented by the Nichi Bei Foundation Saturday, Feb. 20, from 10:30 a.m. to 8 p.m., at New People Cinema, 1746 Post St. in San Francisco’s Japantown. The event is held in conjunction with the annual Day of Remembrance, commemorating the signing of Executive Order 9066, which set the wheels in motion to forcibly remove Japanese Americans on the West Coast into American concentration camps.
This year’s lineup includes a heartwarming film on a Nisei Military Intelligence Service veteran, who traveled back to Japan 70 years later to meet one of 1,500 Okinawans he helped to save during the Battle of Okinawa (Alexander Bocchieri and Stacey Hayashi’s “The Herbert Yanamura Story,” with Yanamura and Hayashi joining from Hawai‘i). Also screening is a film on the relatively little-known experience of Japanese Americans incarcerated out of Alaska and how the local community supported them (Greg Chaney’s “The Empty Chair”), a film on the little-known Citizen Isolation Centers (Claudia Katayanagi’s “A Bitter Legacy”), and the event’s anchor film by Janice D. Tanaka on the historic Japanese American Redress Movement (“Right of Passage”).
Also screening during a series of shorts entitled “Re-creating Nikkei History” is Jeffrey Gee Chin’s “Lil Tokyo Reporter,” a film on civil rights leader Sei Fujii starring Chris Tashima (Academy Award-winning director of “Visas and Virtue”), who will join the post-film discussion with Chin and others with the Little Tokyo Historical Society. The shorts will include a UCLA project on how the Minecraft video game could be used in teaching youth about the incarceration experience, as well as an experimental short on the killing of a camp inmate (Tina Takemoto’s “Warning Shot: The Killing of James Wakasa”).
All filmmakers are expected to be represented at Films of Remembrance, with Prof. Art Hansen, director emeritus of the California State University, Fullerton Japanese American Oral History Program, providing additional historical insight for some films.
A Filmmakers Reception from 8 to 10 p.m., featuring Okinawan music by Lucy Nagamine and Naoko Nishimata with Berkeley Genyukai, and a capella music by the Nikkei Choral Ensemble of UC Berkeley, will be catered by Nakayoshi Young Professionals.
The cost of the first four screenings at Films of Remembrance is $10, $25 for “Right of Passage” (including post-event Filmmakers Reception) and $60 for a limited number of All-Day Passes for all films and the reception. Nichi Bei Foundation member and student rates are $8 / $20 / $50 (all-day). The reception alone is $20.
Major funding for the 2016 Films of Remembrance is from the Aratani CARE grant, UCLA’s Asian American Studies Center and the Wayne Maeda Educational Fund of the Nichi Bei Foundation. Gold Sponsor is Union Bank and Silver Sponsors are the Florin and San Francisco chapters of the Japanese American Citizens League.
For more information or to order tickets, visit: https://www.nichibei.org/films-of-remembrance.
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This year’s lineup includes a heartwarming film on a Nisei Military Intelligence Service veteran, who traveled back to Japan 70 years later to meet one of 1,500 Okinawans he helped to save during the Battle of Okinawa (Alexander Bocchieri and Stacey Hayashi’s “The Herbert Yanamura Story,” with Yanamura and Hayashi joining from Hawai‘i). Also screening is a film on the relatively little-known experience of Japanese Americans incarcerated out of Alaska and how the local community supported them (Greg Chaney’s “The Empty Chair”), a film on the little-known Citizen Isolation Centers (Claudia Katayanagi’s “A Bitter Legacy”), and the event’s anchor film by Janice D. Tanaka on the historic Japanese American Redress Movement (“Right of Passage”).
Also screening during a series of shorts entitled “Re-creating Nikkei History” is Jeffrey Gee Chin’s “Lil Tokyo Reporter,” a film on civil rights leader Sei Fujii starring Chris Tashima (Academy Award-winning director of “Visas and Virtue”), who will join the post-film discussion with Chin and others with the Little Tokyo Historical Society. The shorts will include a UCLA project on how the Minecraft video game could be used in teaching youth about the incarceration experience, as well as an experimental short on the killing of a camp inmate (Tina Takemoto’s “Warning Shot: The Killing of James Wakasa”).
All filmmakers are expected to be represented at Films of Remembrance, with Prof. Art Hansen, director emeritus of the California State University, Fullerton Japanese American Oral History Program, providing additional historical insight for some films.
A Filmmakers Reception from 8 to 10 p.m., featuring Okinawan music by Lucy Nagamine and Naoko Nishimata with Berkeley Genyukai, and a capella music by the Nikkei Choral Ensemble of UC Berkeley, will be catered by Nakayoshi Young Professionals.
The cost of the first four screenings at Films of Remembrance is $10, $25 for “Right of Passage” (including post-event Filmmakers Reception) and $60 for a limited number of All-Day Passes for all films and the reception. Nichi Bei Foundation member and student rates are $8 / $20 / $50 (all-day). The reception alone is $20.
Major funding for the 2016 Films of Remembrance is from the Aratani CARE grant, UCLA’s Asian American Studies Center and the Wayne Maeda Educational Fund of the Nichi Bei Foundation. Gold Sponsor is Union Bank and Silver Sponsors are the Florin and San Francisco chapters of the Japanese American Citizens League.
For more information or to order tickets, visit: https://www.nichibei.org/films-of-remembrance.
Films focusing on the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II will be showcased at the fifth annual Films of Remembrance, presented by the Nichi Bei Foundation Saturday, Feb. 20, from 10:30 a.m. to 8 p.m., at New People Cinema, 1746 Post St. in San Francisco’s Japantown. The event is held in conjunction with the annual Day of Remembrance, commemorating the signing of Executive Order 9066, which set the wheels in motion to forcibly remove Japanese Americans on the West Coast into American concentration camps.
This year’s lineup includes a heartwarming film on a Nisei Military Intelligence Service veteran, who traveled back to Japan 70 years later to meet one of 1,500 Okinawans he helped to save during the Battle of Okinawa (Alexander Bocchieri and Stacey Hayashi’s “The Herbert Yanamura Story,” with Yanamura and Hayashi joining from Hawai‘i). Also screening is a film on the relatively little-known experience of Japanese Americans incarcerated out of Alaska and how the local community supported them (Greg Chaney’s “The Empty Chair”), a film on the little-known Citizen Isolation Centers (Claudia Katayanagi’s “A Bitter Legacy”), and the event’s anchor film by Janice D. Tanaka on the historic Japanese American Redress Movement (“Right of Passage”).
Also screening during a series of shorts entitled “Re-creating Nikkei History” is Jeffrey Gee Chin’s “Lil Tokyo Reporter,” a film on civil rights leader Sei Fujii starring Chris Tashima (Academy Award-winning director of “Visas and Virtue”), who will join the post-film discussion with Chin and others with the Little Tokyo Historical Society. The shorts will include a UCLA project on how the Minecraft video game could be used in teaching youth about the incarceration experience, as well as an experimental short on the killing of a camp inmate (Tina Takemoto’s “Warning Shot: The Killing of James Wakasa”).
All filmmakers are expected to be represented at Films of Remembrance, with Prof. Art Hansen, director emeritus of the California State University, Fullerton Japanese American Oral History Program, providing additional historical insight for some films.
A Filmmakers Reception from 8 to 10 p.m., featuring Okinawan music by Lucy Nagamine and Naoko Nishimata with Berkeley Genyukai, and a capella music by the Nikkei Choral Ensemble of UC Berkeley, will be catered by Nakayoshi Young Professionals.
The cost of the first four screenings at Films of Remembrance is $10, $25 for “Right of Passage” (including post-event Filmmakers Reception) and $60 for a limited number of All-Day Passes for all films and the reception. Nichi Bei Foundation member and student rates are $8 / $20 / $50 (all-day). The reception alone is $20.
Major funding for the 2016 Films of Remembrance is from the Aratani CARE grant, UCLA’s Asian American Studies Center and the Wayne Maeda Educational Fund of the Nichi Bei Foundation. Gold Sponsor is Union Bank and Silver Sponsors are the Florin and San Francisco chapters of the Japanese American Citizens League.
For more information or to order tickets, visit: https://www.nichibei.org/films-of-remembrance.
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This year’s lineup includes a heartwarming film on a Nisei Military Intelligence Service veteran, who traveled back to Japan 70 years later to meet one of 1,500 Okinawans he helped to save during the Battle of Okinawa (Alexander Bocchieri and Stacey Hayashi’s “The Herbert Yanamura Story,” with Yanamura and Hayashi joining from Hawai‘i). Also screening is a film on the relatively little-known experience of Japanese Americans incarcerated out of Alaska and how the local community supported them (Greg Chaney’s “The Empty Chair”), a film on the little-known Citizen Isolation Centers (Claudia Katayanagi’s “A Bitter Legacy”), and the event’s anchor film by Janice D. Tanaka on the historic Japanese American Redress Movement (“Right of Passage”).
Also screening during a series of shorts entitled “Re-creating Nikkei History” is Jeffrey Gee Chin’s “Lil Tokyo Reporter,” a film on civil rights leader Sei Fujii starring Chris Tashima (Academy Award-winning director of “Visas and Virtue”), who will join the post-film discussion with Chin and others with the Little Tokyo Historical Society. The shorts will include a UCLA project on how the Minecraft video game could be used in teaching youth about the incarceration experience, as well as an experimental short on the killing of a camp inmate (Tina Takemoto’s “Warning Shot: The Killing of James Wakasa”).
All filmmakers are expected to be represented at Films of Remembrance, with Prof. Art Hansen, director emeritus of the California State University, Fullerton Japanese American Oral History Program, providing additional historical insight for some films.
A Filmmakers Reception from 8 to 10 p.m., featuring Okinawan music by Lucy Nagamine and Naoko Nishimata with Berkeley Genyukai, and a capella music by the Nikkei Choral Ensemble of UC Berkeley, will be catered by Nakayoshi Young Professionals.
The cost of the first four screenings at Films of Remembrance is $10, $25 for “Right of Passage” (including post-event Filmmakers Reception) and $60 for a limited number of All-Day Passes for all films and the reception. Nichi Bei Foundation member and student rates are $8 / $20 / $50 (all-day). The reception alone is $20.
Major funding for the 2016 Films of Remembrance is from the Aratani CARE grant, UCLA’s Asian American Studies Center and the Wayne Maeda Educational Fund of the Nichi Bei Foundation. Gold Sponsor is Union Bank and Silver Sponsors are the Florin and San Francisco chapters of the Japanese American Citizens League.
For more information or to order tickets, visit: https://www.nichibei.org/films-of-remembrance.
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