A Thousand Paper Cranes: How Denver's Japanese American Community Emerged from Internment (film)
Documentary film about the wartime incarceration and about Japanese Americans in Denver after the war. Scenes shot at the Amache site today serve as a backdrop for the incarceration stories, while the segments on Denver focus on the importance of Colorado Governor Ralph Carr and on Sakura Square, the symbolic center of Colorado's Japanese American community.
A Thousand Paper Cranes was made by the Office of Storytelling of the City and County of Denver as part of their "I AM DENVER" storytelling project. It was aired on local television and screened as part of the 2021 Amache Virtual Pilgrimage. [1]
Might also like Colorado Experience: Amache (2013); The Untold Story of Ralph Carr and the Japanese: The Fate of 3 Japanese-Americans and the Internment (2011); Resettled Roots: Legacies of Japanese Americans in Chicago (2019)
Footnotes
- ↑ Office of Storytelling of the City and County of Denver, https://www.denvergov.org/Community/Neighborhoods/Office-of-Storytelling ; Alexia Carrasco, "Documentary on Japanese Internment 'A Thousand Paper Cranes' Airs on 9NEWS," 9NEWS website, June 3, 2022, https://www.9news.com/article/news/community/asian-pacific-american-heritage/a-thousand-paper-cranes/73-ed202a40-da8b-45d5-8bfe-c62c8d2bebe0 , both accessed on Jan. 25, 2023.
| Release Date | 2020 |
|---|---|
| Runtime | 39 minutes |
| Producer | Amanda Zitzman |
| Starring | Daryl Maeda (interviewee), Derek Okubo (interviewee), John Hopper (interviewee), Linda Takahashi Rodriguez (interviewee), Stacey Shigaya (interviewee), Jolie Noguchi (interviewee), Alyssa Noguchi (interviewee) |
| Cinematography | Amanda Zitzman |
| Editing | Amanda Zitzman |
| Studio | City and County of Denver |
For More Information
Official website with streaming link: https://www.denvergov.org/content/denvergov/en/i-am-denver/documentaries/denver-japanese-americans-internment.html