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Footage from the Los Angeles hearings of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians—which NCRR helped to organize—and well as excerpts of speeches by Norman Mineta and Robert Matsui in support of redress legislation are also included. The film culminates with footage of NCRR's July 1987 trip to Washington, DC, to lobby for redress legislation and with the passage and signing what would become the\n  \n   Civil Liberties Act of 1988\n  \n  . 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Reparations Now!;\nDate:1988/2002; \nGenre:;\nReleased:;\nDirector:Alan Kondo;\nProducer:Alan Kondo;\nWriter:Bruce Iwasaki; Miya Iwataki; Alan Kondo; Bert Nakano; Alan Nishio; John Ota;\nScreenplay:;\nStory:;\nBasedOn:;\nNarrator:Miya Iwataki;\nStarring:Alan Nishio (speaker); Alan Cranston (interviewee);\n   <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Frank_Emi\" title=\"Frank Emi\">\n    Frank Emi\n   </a>\n   (interviewee); Dorothy Ito Shundo (interviewee);\n   <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Robert_Matsui\" title=\"Robert Matsui\">\n    Robert Matsui\n   </a>\n   (speaker);\n   <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Norman_Mineta\" title=\"Norman Mineta\">\n    Norman Mineta\n   </a>\n   (speaker); Tsuyako Kitashima (interviewee); Carole Hayashino (interviewee);\n   <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Aiko_Herzig-Yoshinaga\" title=\"Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga\">\n    Aiko Yoshinaga-Herzig\n   </a>\n   (interviewee); Bert Nakano (interviewee);\nMusic:;\nCinematography:;\nEditing:;\nStudio:National Coalition for Redress/Reparations;\nDistributor:;\nRuntime:30 minutes;\nCountry:;\nLanguage:;\nBudget:;\nGross:;\nIMDBLink:;\nTrailerLink:;\n  </p>\n </div>\n <p>\n  Documentary film on the\n  <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Redress_movement\" title=\"Redress movement\">\n   Redress Movement\n  </a>\n  focusing on the contributions of the\n  <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/National_Coalition_for_Redress/Reparations\" title=\"National Coalition for Redress/Reparations\">\n   National Coalition for Redress/Reparations\n  </a>\n  (NCRR), which produced it. The film provides a brief overview of the wartime incarceration, with a focus on resistance by Japanese Americans in and out of confinement. It then traces the roots of NCRR to 1960s social movements and the rise of redress as an issue in Japanese American communities in the 1970s, outlining NCRR's \"grass roots\" orientation. Footage from the Los Angeles hearings of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians—which NCRR helped to organize—and well as excerpts of speeches by Norman Mineta and Robert Matsui in support of redress legislation are also included. The film culminates with footage of NCRR's July 1987 trip to Washington, DC, to lobby for redress legislation and with the passage and signing what would become the\n  <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Civil_Liberties_Act_of_1988\" title=\"Civil Liberties Act of 1988\">\n   Civil Liberties Act of 1988\n  </a>\n  . Alan Kondo produced and directed the thirty minute film for NCRR, which premiered at an August 27, 1988 redress celebration in Los Angeles.\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  </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/Right of Passage (film)/\" title=\"Right of Passage (film)\">\n    Right of Passage\n   </a>\n  </i>\n  (2014);\n  <i>\n   <a class=\"encyc rg\" href=\"/wiki/Rebel with a Cause: The Life of Aiko Herzig Yoshinaga (film)/\" title=\"Rebel with a Cause: The Life of Aiko Herzig Yoshinaga (film)\">\n    Rebel with a Cause: The Life of Aiko Herzig Yoshinaga\n   </a>\n  </i>\n  (2016);\n  <i>\n   <a class=\"encyc rg\" href=\"/wiki/Redress: The JACL Campaign for Justice (film)/\" title=\"Redress: The JACL Campaign for Justice (film)\">\n    Redress: The JACL Campaign for Justice\n   </a>\n   ' (1991)\n  </i>\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/Documentary_films/videos_on_incarceration\" title=\"Documentary films/videos on incarceration\">\n          Documentary films/videos on incarceration\n         </a>\n        </li>\n       </ul>\n      </div>\n     </div>\n    </div>\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </div>\n <!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCached time: 20250625170245\nCache expiry: 86400\nDynamic content: false\nComplications: []\nCPU time usage: 0.028 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.036 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 371/1000000\nPost‐expand include size: 8378/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 2201/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 6/40\nExpensive parser function count: 0/100\nUnstrip recursion depth: 0/20\nUnstrip post‐expand size: 0/5000000 bytes\nExtLoops count: 0\n-->\n <!--\nTransclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template)\n100.00%   16.774      1 -total\n 24.20%    4.059      1 Template:RelatedArticles\n 20.29%    3.403      1 Template:Databox-Films\n 18.91%    3.172      1 Template:RGDatabox-Core\n 12.25%    2.055      1 Template:RelatedArticlesSection\n 11.89%    1.994      1 Template:AuthorByline\n 11.70%    1.962      1 Template:Published\n 11.63%    1.951      1 Template:publish-rgonly\n-->\n <!-- Saved in parser cache with key encycmw:pcache:idhash:2683-0!canonical and timestamp 20250625170245 and revision id 28541\n -->\n</div>\n"}