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Muller (interviewee); Roger Daniels (interviewee); Tetsuden Kashima (interviewee); Daniel Martinez (interviewee); Reiko Maruyama (interviewee); Toru Saito (interviewee); Natalie Katayanagi (interviewee); Herb Weatherwax (interviewee); Eileen Tamura (interviewee); Arthur Hansen (interviewee); Priscilla Ouchida (interviewee); Masako Miura (interviewee); Harry Ueno (interviewee); Jim Tanimoto (interviewee); Mori Tanimoto (interviewee); Tom Ikeda (interviewee); Taneyuki Dan Harada (interviewee); Melvin Peshlakai (interviewee); Ellen and Ralph McGee (interviewees); Fred and Ethel Paisano (interviewees); Joe and Flora Smith (interviewees); Robert McGee (interviewee); Tim Nelson (interviewee); Karen Korematsu (interviewee); Greg Robinson (interviewee); Chizuko Judy Sugita de Queiroz (interviewee); Wendy Maruyama (interviewee); Donald Tamaki (interviewee);\nMusic:;\nCinematography:;\nEditing:Stephen M. Simon; Zensuke Omi-Brewer; Martin H. Hara;\nStudio:Biosphere Productions;\nDistributor:;\nRuntime:75 minutes;\nCountry:;\nLanguage:;\nBudget:;\nGross:;\nIMDBLink:\n <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5086244/\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5086244/\n </a>\n ;\nTrailerLink:;\n </p>\n </div>\n <div class=\"rgonly\">\n <!--\"rgdatabox-CoreDisplay\" removed-->\n <div id=\"rgdatabox-Core\" style=\"display:none;\">\n <p>\n RGMediaType:films;\nTitle:A Bitter Legacy;\nCreators:;\nInterestLevel:Grades 9-12; Adult;\nReadingLevel:;\nGuidedReadingLevel:;\nLexile:;\nTheme:Convention and rebellion; Injustice; Rights - individual or societal;\nGenre:Documentary;\nPoV:Told from perspective of scholars and former inmates;\nRelatedEvents:;\nAvailability:Widely available;\nFreeWebVersion:No;\nPrimarySecondary:;\nHasTeachingAids:No;\nWarnings:;\nDenshoTopic:;\nGeography:;\nChronology:1940s, 1980s, 2010s;\nFacility:Leupp [32] - Leupp, Arizona; Moab [31] - Dalton Wells, Utah; Tule Lake [10] - Newell, California;\n </p>\n </div>\n </div>\n <p>\n Documentary film by Claudia Katayanagi that provides an overview of the Japanese American incarceration with a focus on resistance, in particular on the\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Moab/Leupp_Isolation_Centers_(detention_facility)\" title=\"Moab/Leupp Isolation Centers (detention facility)\">\n Moab and Leupp Isolation Centers\n </a>\n and the events leading up to them. In addition to many interviews with scholars, former inmates, local residents (many of whom are Native American), and others, Katayanagi uses actors to reenact some key scenes in the story. She also uses Wendy Maruyama's Tag Project—an art installation consisting of thousands of tags similar to those attached to Japanese Americans and their possessions as they were being forcibly removed—as recurring motif between the eight chapters, from \"Pre-War Days\" to \"Redress and Reparations.\"\n </p>\n <p>\n Filmmaker Katayanagi, a Yonsei, has worked as a sound recordist or sound mixer for many films and TV shows. Though her father's family was incarcerated at\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Tanforan_(detention_facility)\" title=\"Tanforan (detention facility)\">\n Tanforan\n </a>\n and\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Topaz\" title=\"Topaz\">\n Topaz\n </a>\n and her mother's at\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Sacramento_(detention_facility)\" title=\"Sacramento (detention facility)\">\n Sacramento\n </a>\n and\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Tule_Lake\" title=\"Tule Lake\">\n Tule Lake\n </a>\n , no one in the family talked about the incarceration, which was common among Japanese American families after the war. In reading about the incarceration, she was struck by the stories of Moab, Leupp,\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Cow_Creek_(detention_facility)\" title=\"Cow Creek (detention facility)\">\n Cow Creek\n </a>\n , and Tule Lake wondered why their stories were not better known. \"When I started this film more than five years ago, I had no idea how relevant these issues of racial profiling, immigration restriction, cultural and religious incarceration would be today,\" she told journalist J.K. Yamamoto.\n <sup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-1\">\n <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_note-1\">\n [1]\n </a>\n </sup>\n </p>\n <p>\n <i>\n A Bitter Legacy\n </i>\n was funded in part by a 2012 Japanese American Confinement Sites grant of $290,000.\n <sup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-2\">\n <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_note-2\">\n [2]\n </a>\n </sup>\n </p>\n <div id=\"authorByline\">\n <b>\n Authored by\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Brian_Niiya\" title=\"Brian Niiya\">\n Brian Niiya\n </a>\n , Densho\n </b>\n </div>\n <div id=\"citationAuthor\" style=\"display:none;\">\n Niiya, Brian\n </div>\n <p>\n Might also like\n <a class=\"encyc rg\" href=\"/wiki/Rabbit in the Moon (film)/\" title=\"Rabbit in the Moon (film)\">\n <i>\n Rabbit in the Moon\n </i>\n </a>\n (1999);\n <a class=\"encyc rg\" href=\"/wiki/Resistance at Tule Lake (film)/\" title=\"Resistance at Tule Lake (film)\">\n <i>\n Resistance at Tule Lake\n </i>\n </a>\n (2017);\n <a class=\"encyc rg\" href=\"/wiki/From a Silk Cocoon (film)/\" title=\"From a Silk Cocoon (film)\">\n <i>\n From a Silk Cocoon\n </i>\n </a>\n (2005)\n </p>\n</div>\n",
"moreinfo": "<div class=\"section\" id=\"For_More_Information\">\n <h2>\n <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"For_More_Information\">\n For More Information\n </span>\n </h2>\n <div class=\"section_content\">\n <p>\n Official website:\n <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"http://www.abitterlegacy.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n http://www.abitterlegacy.com/\n </a>\n </p>\n <p>\n Yamamoto, J.K. \"Film Focuses on Little-Known WWII Camps.\"\n <i>\n Rafu Shimpo\n </i>\n , Jan. 5, 2017, 1, 2.\n </p>\n </div>\n</div>",
"footnotes": "<div class=\"section\" id=\"Footnotes\">\n <h2>\n <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Footnotes\">\n Footnotes\n </span>\n </h2>\n <div class=\"section_content\">\n <div class=\"reflist\" style=\"list-style-type: decimal;\">\n <div class=\"mw-references-wrap\">\n <ol class=\"references\">\n <li id=\"cite_note-1\">\n <span class=\"mw-cite-backlink\">\n <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_ref-1\">\n ↑\n </a>\n </span>\n <span class=\"reference-text\">\n <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"http://www.abitterlegacy.com/filmmaker-bio\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n http://www.abitterlegacy.com/filmmaker-bio\n </a>\n ; J.K. Yamamoto, \"Film Focuses on Little-Known WWII Camps,\" Rafu Shimpo, Jan. 5, 2017, 1, 2, both accessed on Mar. 15, 2021.\n </span>\n </li>\n <li id=\"cite_note-2\">\n <span class=\"mw-cite-backlink\">\n <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_ref-2\">\n ↑\n </a>\n </span>\n <span class=\"reference-text\">\n \"Developing Innovations in Navajo Education, Inc. Supports New Documentary that Tells the Story of Arizona's Leupp Citizen Isolation Center,\" Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program newsletter, Spring 2017, p. 19, accessed on Mar. 15, 2021 at\n <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"https://www.nps.gov/jacs/downloads/Newsletter11.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n https://www.nps.gov/jacs/downloads/Newsletter11.pdf\n </a>\n .\n </span>\n </li>\n </ol>\n </div>\n </div>\n <!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCached time: 20230521153400\nCache expiry: 86400\nDynamic content: false\nComplications: []\nCPU time usage: 0.021 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.027 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 427/1000000\nPost‐expand include size: 10200/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 4486/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 5/40\nExpensive parser function count: 0/100\nUnstrip recursion depth: 0/20\nUnstrip post‐expand size: 1165/5000000 bytes\nExtLoops count: 0\n-->\n <!--\nTransclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template)\n100.00% 18.658 1 -total\n 12.95% 2.416 1 Template:Databox-Films\n 12.85% 2.397 1 Template:RGDatabox-Core\n 12.78% 2.385 1 Template:Reflist\n 7.11% 1.326 1 Template:AuthorByline\n 7.03% 1.311 1 Template:Published\n 6.75% 1.260 1 Template:publish-rgonly\n-->\n <!-- Saved in parser cache with key encycmw:pcache:idhash:4371-0!canonical and timestamp 20230521153400 and revision id 33579\n -->\n </div>\n</div>"
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