Old Man River (1999)

03/03/1999 (US) • 1h 14m

Documentary

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

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.


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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$5,000.00

Revenue

-

Keywords

world war ii

racial stereotype

japanese american

internment camp

japanese american internment

1940s

father daughter relationship

independent film

long lost sibling

japanese american history

family secret

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