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The Nisei Veterans Memorial Center will present Farewell to Manzanar for May’s Monthly Movie Matinee at the Stanley Izumigawa Resource Center at 1:30 pm. Doors open at 1:00 pm. This movie is a Mother’s Day special to all the mothers in the U.S. and worldwide.
About the Movie:
Written by Jeanne Wakatsuki and James Houston. Directed by John Korty.
In 1976, the made-for-TV film Farewell to Manzanar, based on the book by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, was the first commercial film written, performed, photographed, and scored by Japanese Americans about the World War II camp experience and broadcast on prime-time television.
Jeanne Wakatsuki was seven years old in 1942 when her family was uprooted from their home and sent to live at Manzanar—with 10,000 other Japanese Americans amidst searchlight towers and armed guards. Although it is the story of only one Japanese American family’s experiences, it has become a modern classic, often compared with The Diary of Anne Frank as an example of poignant literature about the effects of war on youth and the human spirit.
The Movie is free, but reservations are required
Call the NVMC center at 808-244-6862 or click the button below to reserve your spot
