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"body": "<div class=\"mw-parser-output\">\n <div id=\"databox-Films\" style=\"display:none;\">\n <p>\n Title:Nisei Soldier: Standard Bearer for an Exiled People;\nDate:1983; \nGenre:;\nReleased:;\nDirector:Loni Ding;\nProducer:Loni Ding;\nWriter:Loni Ding;\nScreenplay:;\nStory:;\nBasedOn:;\nNarrator:Russ Holcomb;\nStarring:Henry Gosho (interviewee); Chester Tanaka (interviewee); James Lovell (interviewee); John Kaneko (interviewee); Rudy Tokiwa (interviewee); Hiro Higuchi (interviewee; audio only); Eric Saul (interviewee); Goro Sumida (interviewee);\nMusic:Makoto Horiuchi;\nCinematography:Michael Chin;\nEditing:Loni Ding;\nStudio:;\nDistributor:;\nRuntime:30 minutes;\nCountry:;\nLanguage:;\nBudget:;\nGross:;\nIMDBLink:;\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:Nisei Soldier: Standard Bearer for an Exiled People;\nCreators:;\nInterestLevel:Grades 9-12; Adult;\nReadingLevel:;\nGuidedReadingLevel:;\nLexile:;\nTheme:Patriotism - positive side or complications; Injustice; Heroism - real or perceived;\nGenre:Documentary;\nPoV:Nisei veterans of World War II;\nRelatedEvents:;\nAvailability:Limited availability;\nFreeWebVersion:No;\nPrimarySecondary:;\nHasTeachingAids:Yes;\nWarnings:NR (Not Rated);\nDenshoTopic:;\nGeography:United States; Europe;\nChronology:1941-1946;\nFacility:;\n </p>\n </div>\n </div>\n <p>\n Influential documentary film by Loni Ding that was the first of many to specifically focus on the story of Japanese Americans who served in the armed forces during World War II.\n </p>\n <p>\n A sociologist, television producer, and independent filmmaker based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Ding was inspired to do the film after attending the hearings of the\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Commission_on_Wartime_Relocation_and_Internment_of_Civilians\" title=\"Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians\">\n Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians\n </a>\n (CWIRC) in 1981. As she told Barbara Abrash,\n </p>\n <blockquote>\n <p>\n I found the whole experience absolutely riveting because there were these four generations sitting there who normally found it difficult even to talk to each other about these matters. Yet they had gotten together to do this joint appearance, and they were giving a stunning performance. They were appearing in front of a bunch of big wigs revealing publicly their very personal lives and yet every one of them had done it like a prime performance. Then I noticed, in fact, that the media were coming and taking their sound bites and leaving. I just felt that this shouldn't be happening. Right then I was thinking that something should be done.\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 </blockquote>\n <p>\n Supported by grants from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the California Public Broadcasting Commission and California Council for the Humanities, Washington Council for the Humanities, and National Endowment for the Humanities, Ding embarked on what would become a two-year project. The film had its world premiere at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco on February 19, 1984, serving as a fundraiser for the\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Coram_nobis_cases\" title=\"Coram nobis cases\">\n coram nobis cases\n </a>\n .\n </p>\n <p>\n <i>\n Nisei Soldier\n </i>\n uses archival footage—much of it drawn from the many newsreels that extolled the exploits of the soldiers—and photographs, contemporary interviews, and a minimal amount of narration to tell the broad outline of the story in largely chronological fashion, covering prewar\n <a class=\"mw-redirect encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Anti-Japanese_movement\" title=\"Anti-Japanese movement\">\n anti-Japanese sentiment\n </a>\n , the attack on Pearl Harbor, the exclusion and incarceration of West Coast Japanese Americans, and the formation and exploits of the\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/100th_Infantry_Battalion\" title=\"100th Infantry Battalion\">\n 100th Infantry Battalion\n </a>\n and\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/442nd_Regimental_Combat_Team\" title=\"442nd Regimental Combat Team\">\n 442nd Regimental Combat Team\n </a>\n . Ding also addresses the issue of why the men chose to serve despite the incarceration and of whether the Nisei soldiers were specifically given the most difficult and dangerous assignments. Among those interviewed are veterans Henry Gosho, Chester Tanaka, John Kaneko, Rudy Tokiwa, Hiro Higuchi, and Goro Sumida, along with Major James Lovell, the executive officer of the 100th, and military historian Eric Saul.\n </p>\n <p>\n <i>\n Nisei Soldier\n </i>\n was shown nationally on over 300 public broadcasting stations in 1984–85, as well as at various screenings and film festival appearances. It was well reviewed at the time and cited for its significance by film scholars. Carlos Cortes called it \"informative and provocative,\" Richard Springer praised it as \"... a fine production and perhaps her most polished to date,\" and Donald Hata wrote that it \"conveys a sense of genuineness.\"\n <sup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-ftnt_ref2_2-0\">\n <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_note-ftnt_ref2-2\">\n [2]\n </a>\n </sup>\n Film historian Michael Resnow called it \"a sensitive treatment of the young men who chose to leave the camps to enter military service...,\" and Glen M. Miura cites it as being among the \"most notable\" of films on Japanese Americans in the military.\n <sup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-ftnt_ref3_3-0\">\n <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_note-ftnt_ref3-3\">\n [3]\n </a>\n </sup>\n In their study of the Redress Movement, Mitchell T. Maki, Harry H.L. Kitano, and S. Megan Berthold note that the it was shown on closed-circuit television in Congress when redress legislation was being debated.\n <sup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-ftnt_ref4_4-0\">\n <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_note-ftnt_ref4-4\">\n [4]\n </a>\n </sup>\n Among the many awards it has received include a Northern California Region Emmy Award, a Gold Medal for History and Biography at the 1985 New York International Film & Video Festival, and a 1984 CINE Gold Eagle.\n </p>\n <p>\n Being able to tell only a small part of the story in the half-hour\n <i>\n Nisei Soldier\n </i>\n , Ding went to make the longer\n <i>\n <a class=\"encyc rg\" href=\"/wiki/The Color of Honor: The Japanese American Soldier in WWII (film)/\" title=\"The Color of Honor: The Japanese American Soldier in WWII (film)\">\n The Color of Honor: The Japanese American Soldier in WWII\n </a>\n </i>\n , which focused on Nisei in the\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Military_Intelligence_Service\" title=\"Military Intelligence Service\">\n Military Intelligence Service\n </a>\n , in 1987.\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/The Color of Honor: The Japanese American Soldier in WWII (film)/\" title=\"The Color of Honor: The Japanese American Soldier in WWII (film)\">\n The Color of Honor: The Japanese American Soldier in WWII\n </a>\n </i>\n (1987);\n <i>\n <a class=\"encyc rg\" href=\"/wiki/442: Live with Honor, Die with Dignity (film)/\" title=\"442: Live with Honor, Die with Dignity (film)\">\n 442: Live with Honor, Die with Dignity\n </a>\n </i>\n (2010);\n <i>\n <a class=\"encyc rg\" href=\"/wiki/Citizen Tanouye (film)/\" title=\"Citizen Tanouye (film)\">\n Citizen Tanouye\n </a>\n </i>\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 <i>\n Nisei Soldier\n </i>\n official site.\n <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"http://www.cetel.org/nisei.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n http://www.cetel.org/nisei.html\n </a>\n .\n </p>\n <p>\n Kanopy Streaming link:\n <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"https://www.kanopystreaming.com/product/nisei-soldier\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n https://www.kanopystreaming.com/product/nisei-soldier\n </a>\n </p>\n <p>\n Abrash, Barbara. \"\n <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"http://documentaryisneverneutral.com/words/intloniding.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n Interview with Loni Ding.\n </a>\n \" April 28, 1991. Documentary Is Never Neutral website.\n </p>\n <p>\n Cortes, Carlos E. Review of\n <i>\n Nisei Soldier: Standard Bearer for an Exiled People\n </i>\n and\n <i>\n Unfinished Business: The Japanese American Internment Cases\n </i>\n .\n <i>\n Film & History\n </i>\n 16.4 (December 1986): 85–88.\n </p>\n <p>\n Hata, Donald Teruo, Jr. Review of\n <i>\n Nisei Soldier\n </i>\n .\n <i>\n The Journal of American History\n </i>\n 74.3 (1987): 1116.\n </p>\n <p>\n Mishima, Darin. \"Nisei Soldiers: Fighting for Justice.\"\n <i>\n Hawaii Herald\n </i>\n , October 19, 1984, p. 11.\n </p>\n <p>\n Renow, Michael. \"Warring Images: Stereotype and American Representations of the Japanese, 1941–1991.\" In\n <i>\n The Japan/America Film Wars: World War II Propaganda and Its Cultural Contexts\n </i>\n . Edited by Markus Nornes and Yukio Fukushima. (Philadelphia: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1994): 95–118. Reprinted in Michael Renow,\n <i>\n The Subject of Documentary\n </i>\n (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004): 43–68.\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 Barbara Abrash, \"Interview with Loni Ding,\" April 28, 1991, accessed on November 26, 2013 on the Documentary Is Never Neutral website.\n <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"http://documentaryisneverneutral.com/words/intloniding.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n http://documentaryisneverneutral.com/words/intloniding.html\n </a>\n .\n </span>\n </li>\n <li id=\"cite_note-ftnt_ref2-2\">\n <span class=\"mw-cite-backlink\">\n <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_ref-ftnt_ref2_2-0\">\n ↑\n </a>\n </span>\n <span class=\"reference-text\">\n Carlos E. Cortes, \"Review of\n <i>\n Nisei Soldier: Standard Bearer for an Exiled People\n </i>\n and\n <i>\n Unfinished Business: The Japanese American Internment Cases\n </i>\n ,\"\n <i>\n Film & History\n </i>\n 16.4 (December 1986), p. 87; Richard, Springer, \"NIsei Soldier Provides Moving and Realistic Depiction,\"\n <i>\n East West\n </i>\n , February 8, 1984, p. 8; Hata, Donald Teruo, Jr. \"Review of\n <i>\n Nisei Soldier\n </i>\n ,\"\n <i>\n The Journal of American History\n </i>\n 74.3 (1987), p. 1116.\n </span>\n </li>\n <li id=\"cite_note-ftnt_ref3-3\">\n <span class=\"mw-cite-backlink\">\n <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_ref-ftnt_ref3_3-0\">\n ↑\n </a>\n </span>\n <span class=\"reference-text\">\n Michael Resnow, \"Warring Images: Stereotype and American Representations of the Japanese, 1941–1991,\" in\n <i>\n The Japan/America Film Wars: World War II Propaganda and Its Cultural Contexts\n </i>\n (Edited by Markus Nornes and Yukio Fukushima, Philadelphia: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1994), p. 111; Glen M. Mimura,\n <i>\n Ghostlife of Third Cinema: Asian American Film and Video\n </i>\n (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009), p. 82.\n </span>\n </li>\n <li id=\"cite_note-ftnt_ref4-4\">\n <span class=\"mw-cite-backlink\">\n <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_ref-ftnt_ref4_4-0\">\n ↑\n </a>\n </span>\n <span class=\"reference-text\">\n Mitchell T. Maki, Harry H.L. Kitano, and S. Megan Berthold,\n <i>\n Achieving the Impossible Dream: How Japanese Americans Obtained Redress\n </i>\n (Urbana: Univeristy of Illinois Press, 1999), p. 142.\n </span>\n </li>\n </ol>\n </div>\n </div>\n <!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCached time: 20230521153554\nCache expiry: 86400\nDynamic content: false\nComplications: []\nCPU time usage: 0.023 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.029 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 449/1000000\nPost‐expand include size: 8174/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 1909/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 5/40\nExpensive parser function count: 0/100\nUnstrip recursion depth: 0/20\nUnstrip post‐expand size: 2484/5000000 bytes\nExtLoops count: 0\n-->\n <!--\nTransclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template)\n100.00% 19.478 1 -total\n 14.14% 2.754 1 Template:Reflist\n 12.40% 2.416 1 Template:Databox-Films\n 11.78% 2.295 1 Template:RGDatabox-Core\n 6.78% 1.320 1 Template:AuthorByline\n 6.66% 1.297 1 Template:Published\n 6.40% 1.246 1 Template:publish-rgonly\n-->\n <!-- Saved in parser cache with key encycmw:pcache:idhash:2079-0!canonical and timestamp 20230521153554 and revision id 28576\n -->\n </div>\n</div>"
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