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From a Silk Cocoon (film)
- Films and Video
- Grades 9-12, Adult
- Documentary
- Individual versus society, Injustice, War – glory, necessity, pain, tragedy
- Widely available
Documentary film recounting the wartime story of a Kibei couple, Itaru and Shizuko Ina and their two young children as reconstructed by their daughter Satsuki Ina. Ina and co-directors Emery Clay III and Stephen Holsapple tell the story largely through the couple's own words in the form of Shizuko's diary and letters to each other when they become separated in the course of their incarceration.