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Old Man River

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

19991h 14mNo ratings yet
  • 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.

Keywords

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

Details

Status
Released
Release date
March 3, 1999
Original language
English
Spoken languages
English
Countries
United States of America
Production
716 Productions
Budget
$5,000
Revenue
Not recorded
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