List of feature films about the Japanese American internment
Feature films about the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans include:
- American Pastime (2007) Focuses on internees' use of baseball as a source of entertainment while living in camp[1]
- Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
- Come See the Paradise (1990) Follows an interracial family separated by the wartime incarceration program[2]
- Day of Independence (2003) A Nisei teen immerses himself in baseball after his parents decide to return to Japan rather than remain in camp in the U.S.[3]
- Farewell to Manzanar (1976) Made for television adaptation of Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston's memoirs of her time in the Manzanar concentration camp
- Forgotten Valor (2001) Written and directed by Lane Nishikawa, a Nisei veteran remembers his experiences during World War II[4]
- Go for Broke! (1951) Based on the real-life story of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, a segregated army unit of Japanese American men, many of whom served while their families were incarcerated on the home front
- Hell to Eternity (1960) Biopic about Guy Gabaldon, a Mexican American Marine who was adopted by a Japanese American family at age 12 and went on to serve in World War II while his adoptive family was interned in Manzanar
- If Tomorrow Comes (1971) Made-for-TV movie following the romance between a Nisei man and a white woman at the start of World War II[5]
- Snow Falling on Cedars (1999) Adaptation of the novel by David Guterson[6]
- Strawberry Fields (1997)
- Under the Blood Red Sun (2014) A 13 yr old Japanese boy faces monumental adversity in 1941 Hawaii, when the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor. Adaptation of the novel by Graham Salisbury[7]
See also
References
- ↑ American Pastime at the Internet Movie Database
- ↑ Come See the Paradise at the Internet Movie Database
- ↑ Day of Independence official website
- ↑ Forgotten Valor at the Internet Movie Database
- ↑ Brian Niiya, "If Tomorrow Comes" Densho Encyclopedia
- ↑ Snow Falling on Cedars at the Internet Movie Database
- ↑ Under the Blood Red Sun at the Internet Movie Database
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