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Old Man River (1999)

Old Man River (1999)

Documentary

Winner of Cinequest and Vermont Film Festivals and the American Cinema Editors Eddy Award for Best Edited Documentary.

Release Date: 1999, March 3
Directors: Beth Schachter
Countries: United States of America
Production: 716 Productions
Cast: Jerry Fujikawa

Overview:

Documentary film version of the stage show in which actress Cynthia Gates Fujikawa explores the story of her father, actor Jerry Fujikawa, who had a long career in films and television, most often as a stereotyped Asian. The daughter, in the course of searching out her late father's history, discovers many things that she had not known, among them that her father had spent time in Manzanar, the internment camp for Japanese-Americans during World War II, that he had had a family prior to hers, and that somewhere out there was a sister she had never known existed.

Keywords:

world war ii 1940s father daughter relationship independent film internment camp family secrets long lost sibling racial stereotype japanese american japanese american internment japanese american history