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"description": "Short narrative film starring George Takei as a Nisei veteran and\n \n Japanese American National Museum\n \n docent named Clinton Nakamoto. While on duty one day at the museum, he meets a woman with a young daughter and starts to give them a tour. The woman mentions that her grandfather had fought in the \"422\" and shows Clinton a picture of him on her phone. The picture sends Clinton back to the 1942, recalling his anger at the forced removal and later of serving in the\n \n 442nd\n \n with the grandfather, who was killed in the\n \n rescue of the Lost Battalion\n \n . He takes her to visit the Go for Broke memorial, where they find his name on it. On the way home on the bus, he strikes up a friendship with a young Muslim boy.",
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"body": "<div class=\"mw-parser-output\">\n <div id=\"databox-Films\" style=\"display:none;\">\n <p>\n Title:American;\nDate:2018; \nGenre:Drama; War;\nReleased:;\nDirector:Richie Adams;\nProducer:Richie Adams; Brent Caballero;\nWriter:;\nScreenplay:Richie Adams; Bart Gavigan;\nStory:;\nBasedOn:;\nNarrator:;\nStarring:George Takei (Clinton Nakamoto); Leonardo Nam (Young Clinton); Rachel Michiko Whitney (Liz Seki); Keong Sim (Kyung); Araceli Prasarttongosoth (Sarah Seki); Michael Hagiwara (Clinton's father); Marilyn Tokuda (Clinton's mother); Ivan Shaw (David Seki); Sahil Ganatra (Little boy on bus); Samira Izadi (Little boy's mother);\nMusic:Carlos José Alvarez;\nCinematography:Tom Lembcke;\nEditing:Richie Adams; Matthew Lafont;\nStudio:River Road Creative;\nDistributor:;\nRuntime:18 minutes;\nCountry:;\nLanguage:;\nBudget:;\nGross:;\nIMDBLink:\n <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7632066/\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7632066/\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:American;\nCreators:;\nInterestLevel:Grades 9-12; Adult;\nReadingLevel:;\nGuidedReadingLevel:;\nLexile:;\nTheme:Heroism – real and perceived; War – glory, necessity, pain, tragedy; Wisdom of experience;\nGenre:Drama; War;\nPoV:Told from perspective of elderly Nisei World War II veteran;\nRelatedEvents:;\nAvailability:Widely available;\nFreeWebVersion:No;\nPrimarySecondary:;\nHasTeachingAids:No;\nWarnings:;\nDenshoTopic:World War II-Military service-442nd Regimental Combat Team [89]; Reflections on the past-Exhibitions [394];\nGeography:Los Angeles;\nChronology:1940s and 2010s;\nFacility:;\n </p>\n </div>\n </div>\n <p>\n Short narrative film starring George Takei as a Nisei veteran and\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Japanese_American_National_Museum\" title=\"Japanese American National Museum\">\n Japanese American National Museum\n </a>\n docent named Clinton Nakamoto. While on duty one day at the museum, he meets a woman with a young daughter and starts to give them a tour. The woman mentions that her grandfather had fought in the \"422\" and shows Clinton a picture of him on her phone. The picture sends Clinton back to the 1942, recalling his anger at the forced removal and later of serving in the\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/442nd_Regimental_Combat_Team\" title=\"442nd Regimental Combat Team\">\n 442nd\n </a>\n with the grandfather, who was killed in the\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Rescue_of_the_Lost_Battalion\" title=\"Rescue of the Lost Battalion\">\n rescue of the Lost Battalion\n </a>\n . He takes her to visit the Go for Broke memorial, where they find his name on it. On the way home on the bus, he strikes up a friendship with a young Muslim boy.\n </p>\n <p>\n A Louisiana based filmmaker of two prior feature films and a designer of movie title sequences, Richie Adams learned about the story of the 442nd through family lore. Adams co-wrote the screenplay with Bart Gavigan and enlisting Ken and Elizabeth Reiko Kubota Whitney as executive producers. It turned out that Kubota Whitney's parents had lived in the same Rohwer block as George Takei's family and that her mother, Florence Kubota, had been Takei's father's secretary when he was block manager at Rohwer. Takei read and liked the script and agreed to do the film. Shooting took place in Los Angeles in July 2017. The garrison cap and medals used in the movie were lent by 442nd veteran Don Seki, who also makes a cameo appearance in the film. Completed in January 2018,\n <i>\n American\n </i>\n premiered at the Newport Beach Film Festival in March 2018.\n <sup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-ftnt_ref1_1-0\">\n <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_note-ftnt_ref1-1\">\n [1]\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/Only the Brave (film)/\" title=\"Only the Brave (film)\">\n <i>\n Only the Brave\n </i>\n </a>\n (2006);\n <a class=\"encyc rg\" href=\"/wiki/Forgotten Valor (film)/\" title=\"Forgotten Valor (film)\">\n <i>\n Forgotten Valor\n </i>\n </a>\n (2001);\n <a class=\"encyc rg\" href=\"/wiki/Honor Bound: A Personal Journey (film)/\" title=\"Honor Bound: A Personal Journey (film)\">\n <i>\n Honor Bound: A Personal Journey\n </i>\n </a>\n (1995)\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=\"https://www.americanshortfilm.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n https://www.americanshortfilm.com/\n </a>\n </p>\n <p>\n Filmmaker website:\n <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"https://www.richieadams.com/american\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n https://www.richieadams.com/american\n </a>\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-ftnt_ref1-1\">\n <span class=\"mw-cite-backlink\">\n <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_ref-ftnt_ref1_1-0\">\n ↑\n </a>\n </span>\n <span class=\"reference-text\">\n George Toshio Johnston, \"MIS, 442nd Double-Play Coming to Los Angeles,\"\n <i>\n Pacific Citizen\n </i>\n , May 31, 2019,\n <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"https://www.pacificcitizen.org/mis-442nd-double-play-coming-to-los-angeles/\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n https://www.pacificcitizen.org/mis-442nd-double-play-coming-to-los-angeles/\n </a>\n ; Tomo Hirai, \"Getting to the Heart of a Nation,\n <i>\n </i>\n Nichi Bei Weekly\n <i>\n , Feb. 21, 2019, both accessed on Nov. 15, 2022.\n </i>\n </span>\n </li>\n </ol>\n </div>\n </div>\n <!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCached time: 20230521153629\nCache expiry: 86400\nDynamic content: false\nComplications: []\nCPU time usage: 0.021 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.028 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 425/1000000\nPost‐expand include size: 9212/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 2683/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 5/40\nExpensive parser function count: 0/100\nUnstrip recursion depth: 0/20\nUnstrip post‐expand size: 765/5000000 bytes\nExtLoops count: 0\n-->\n <!--\nTransclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template)\n100.00% 18.552 1 -total\n 13.39% 2.485 1 Template:Databox-Films\n 12.43% 2.306 1 Template:RGDatabox-Core\n 12.28% 2.278 1 Template:Reflist\n 7.31% 1.356 1 Template:AuthorByline\n 7.20% 1.335 1 Template:Published\n 6.84% 1.269 1 Template:publish-rgonly\n-->\n <!-- Saved in parser cache with key encycmw:pcache:idhash:4404-0!canonical and timestamp 20230521153629 and revision id 35010\n -->\n </div>\n</div>"
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