Toyo's Camera: Japanese American History During WWII (film)

Feature length documentary by Japanese filmmaker Junichi Suzuki that was released in 2009 and was the first of a trilogy of movies by Suzuki on the Japanese American World War II experience. Though the film begins by telling the story of Issei photographer Toyo Miyatake and his photography of Manzanar , it proceeds to a provide a broad overview of the entire exclusion and incarceration experience, including the Redress Movement of the 1980s. A well-known feature film director in Japan, Suzuki moved to Los Angeles in 2001 and learned about the incarceration experience from a neighbor who had been held at Tule Lake . Toyo's Camera had a brief theatrical run in Los Angeles and was broadcast in Japan on BS Japan satellite television and the Japanese History Channel. Suzuki followed up Toyo's Camera with 442: Live with Honor, Die with Dignity (2010) and MIS: Human Secret Weapons (2012).

Might also like Toyo Miyatake: Infinite Shades of Gray ; Remembering Manzanar (2004); And Then They Came for Us (2017)