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History and Memory: For Akiko and Takashige
Released April 10, 1991Runtime 32min

This film is a poetic composition of recorded history and non-recorded memory. Filmmaker Rea Tajiri’s family was among the 120,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans who were imprisoned in internment camps after the attack on Pearl Harbor. And like so many who were in the camps, Tajiri’s family wrapped their memories of that experience in a shroud of silence and forgetting. This film raises questions about collective history – questions that prompt Tajiri to daringly re-imagine and re-create what has been stolen and what has been lost.

Genres
  • Documentary
Production Companies
    Production Countries
    • United States of America
    Finances
    • Budget: $0
    • Revenue: $0
    • Profit/Loss: $0
    Crew
    posterRea TajiriDirector
    posterRea TajiriWriter
    posterEric DaviesResearcher
    posterRea TajiriEditor
    posterRea TajiriDirector of Photography
    posterAngel Velasco ShawDirector of Photography
    posterNoel ShawAdditional Writing
    posterSokhi WagnerAdditional Writing
    posterRobert BurdenOnline Editor
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