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Through her first person narration and recreated scenes, we learn of her childhood on Bainbridge as the daughter of poor but hardworking strawberry farmers and of family and community life there. She then recounts the shock of the attack on Pearl Harbor and the subsequent forced removal, telling us that \"being taken away did things to me that I'm just beginning to get in touch with.\" We then shift to the present, as Emi, with her daughter Carla, first visit Manzanar. As they walk the site, Emi talks about her feelings at the time and recalls becoming \"physically and mentally ill.\" Initially disoriented, she eventually finds her bearings and locates what she thinks is the block she had lived in. After a stop in Los Angeles to catch part of the Nisei Week festival, they head up the Pacific Northwest. On Bainbridge, she finds the house she grew up in still standing, then has a tearful reunion with the Nishimori family, her family's close friends from the before the war.\n </p>\n <p>\n <i>\n Emi\n </i>\n was one of the first films to focus on the wartime incarceration story told from a Japanese American perspective. Anthropologist Lane Hirabayashi calls the film \"very moving\" and cites it as \"virtually the only example\" from its time to show \"clear expressions of loss of communality expressed at an individual level.\"\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 It was made for public television as part of a film series titled\n <i>\n Pearls\n </i>\n , which was one of the first to focus on Asian Americans.\n <i>\n Emi\n </i>\n was directed by Frank Nesbitt and Michael Toshiyuki Uno and produced by Educational Film Center under a contract from Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Additional funding was provided by the Hōsō-Bunka Foundation, Tokyo, Japan.\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 <i>\n <a class=\"encyc rg\" href=\"/wiki/Mitsuye and Nellie: Asian American Poets (film)/\" title=\"Mitsuye and Nellie: Asian American Poets (film)\">\n Mitsuye and Nellie: Asian American Poets\n </a>\n </i>\n (1981);\n <i>\n <a class=\"encyc rg\" href=\"/wiki/Manzanar: Never Again (film)/\" title=\"Manzanar: Never Again (film)\">\n Manzanar: Never Again\n </a>\n </i>\n (2008);\n <i>\n <a class=\"encyc rg\" href=\"/wiki/Family Gathering (film)/\" title=\"Family Gathering (film)\">\n Family Gathering\n </a>\n </i>\n (1988)\n </p>\n <div id=\"RelatedArticlesDisplay\">\n <div class=\"section\" id=\"Related_Articles\">\n <h2>\n <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Related_Articles\">\n Related Articles\n </span>\n </h2>\n <div class=\"section_content\">\n <p class=\"mw-empty-elt\">\n </p>\n <div id=\"RelatedArticlesSectionDisplay\">\n <div class=\"section\" id=\"\">\n <h3>\n <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"\">\n </span>\n </h3>\n <div class=\"section_content\">\n <p class=\"mw-empty-elt\">\n </p>\n <ul>\n <li>\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Dramatic_films/videos_on_incarceration\" title=\"Dramatic films/videos on incarceration\">\n Dramatic films/videos on incarceration\n </a>\n </li>\n </ul>\n </div>\n </div>\n </div>\n </div>\n </div>\n </div>\n <div class=\"alert alert-success published\">\n <p>\n This page is complete and will be published to the production Encyclopedia.\n </p>\n </div>\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 Hirabayashi, Lane Ryo. \"Community Destroyed? Assessing the Impact of the Loss of Community on Japanese Americans during World War II.\" In Re/Collecting Early Asian America: Essays in Cultural History. Edited by Josephine Lee, Imogen L. Lim, and Yuko Matsukawa. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2002. 94–107.\n </p>\n </div>\n</div>",
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