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Issei: The First Generation (film)
- Films and Video
- Grades 9-12, Adult
- Documentary
- Role of women, Wisdom of experience
- Available
Documentary film featuring interviews with Issei who speak in Japanese about their lives. Filmed in 1983 and shown on television in the San Francisco Bay area in 1984, the film remained largely unseen for the next thirty years until it was restored and reissued in 2013. It remains one of the only films to feature Issei voices on the wartime removal and incarceration and on Japanese American history in general.