OTHER FILMS
Learn more and watch other films from Robert and Tad Nakamura.
Hito Hata; Raise the Banner (4k restoration)
The film looks back at the life of a man named Oda and other Japanese Americans through the decades as they face great challenges and joys living in the United States.
Streaming from VC Communications Archive.
Manzanar
Created by Robert Nakamura as a graduate student in the UCLA Film School’s Enthocommunications Program, MANZANAR was one of the first films distributed by Visual Communications. At turns lyrical and pensive, this documentary is centered around the central California Japanese American internment camp of the same name. In it, a nisei (second-generation Japanese American) recollects his childhood experiences in the camp as he comes to terms with how internment has affected his adult life.
Streaming from VC Communications Archive.
Nobuko Miyamoto: A Song in Movement
Experience this new sweeping documentary from JANM’s Frank H. Watase Media Arts Center and PBS SoCal that follows the life of visionary artist-activist Nobuko Miyamoto and her work that changed Asian America forever.
Featuring rare archival footage, Nobuko Miyamoto: A Song in Movement tells the story of a changing community through one of its most beloved storytellers as she reflects on decades of groundbreaking cultural work and a life that has bridged coasts, industries, families, and history.