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"body": "<div class=\"mw-parser-output\">\n <div class=\"floatright\">\n </div>\n <div class=\"rgonly\">\n <!--\"rgdatabox-CoreDisplay\" removed-->\n <div id=\"rgdatabox-Core\" style=\"display:none;\">\n <p>\n RGMediaType:films;\nTitle:Seed: The Life of the Rice King and His Kin;\nCreators:;\nInterestLevel:Grades 9-12; Adult;\nReadingLevel:;\nGuidedReadingLevel:;\nLexile:;\nTheme:Circle of life; Immigrant experience; Individual versus society; Overcoming – fear, weakness, vice; Wisdom of experience;\nGenre:Documentary;\nPoV:Tells the story of a family business largely through family members and employees;\nRelatedEvents:;\nAvailability:Widely available;\nFreeWebVersion:Yes;\nPrimarySecondary:;\nHasTeachingAids:No;\nWarnings:;\nDenshoTopic:;\nGeography:Dos Palos, California;\nChronology:1900s to 2010s;\nFacility:Granada (Amache) [4] - Amache, Colorado;\n </p>\n </div>\n </div>\n <div id=\"databox-Films\" style=\"display:none;\">\n <p>\n Title:Seed: The Life of the Rice King and His Kin;\nDate:2016; \nGenre:;\nReleased:;\nDirector:Masanori Baba;\nProducer:Masanori Baba; Hideo Ide;\nWriter:Masanori Baba; Brendan Vogel;\nScreenplay:;\nStory:;\nBasedOn:;\nNarrator:;\nStarring:Ross Koda; Robin Koda; Mike Hillhouse (interviewee); Ricardo Camarena (interviewee); Gary Wallace (interviewee); Bob Yonkers (interviewee); Hideo Ide (interviewee); Shinichi Koda (interviewee); Eiji Koda (interviewee); Shunichi Manome (interviewee); Shuko Matsuzaki (interviewee); Haruo Shirato (interviewee); Shinkichi Koyama; Masakiyo Watanabe (interviewee); Bonnie J. Clark (interviewee); Minoru Tonai (interviewee); Jack Muro (interviewee); Nob Hashimoto (interviewee); Tama Koda; Alejandro Camarena (interviewee); John Bennett (interviewee); Makoto Sasajima (interviewee); Jennifer Morgan (interviewee); Dennis Falaschi (interviewee); Karen Crutcher (interviewee); Benjamin Stuart Thompson (interviewee); Toshikazu Tateiwa (interviewee); Yuko Kaifu (interviewee); Masa Matsuzaki (interviewee); Mihoko Matsuzaki (interviewee); Yuta Tsunoda (interviewee); Kaoru Kawata (interviewee); Grace Koda; Maxine Koda; Lisa Koda; Brian Kito (interviewee); Paul Chamberlin (interviewee); Saya Okano; Steven Doi (interviewee); Mary Wakatsuki (interviewee); Jun Enkoji (interviewee); Paul Tao (interviewee); Dick Kubota (interviewee); Laura Avery (interviewee); Nicole Gordon (interviewee); David Karp (interviewee);\nMusic:William Ryan Fritch;\nCinematography:Daniel Cotroneo;\nEditing:Masanori Baba; Matthew Neel;\nStudio:Nitto Tire U.S.A., Inc.;\nDistributor:;\nRuntime:88 minutes;\nCountry:;\nLanguage:;\nBudget:;\nGross:;\nIMDBLink:;\nTrailerLink:;\n </p>\n </div>\n <p>\n Japanese produced documentary film on\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Issei\" title=\"Issei\">\n Issei\n </a>\n rice farming pioneer Keisaburo Koda and the family business he founded in Dos Palos, California.\n </p>\n <p>\n <i>\n Seed\n </i>\n tells parallel stories about Koda Farms and its\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Sansei\" title=\"Sansei\">\n Sansei\n </a>\n head Ross Koda in the present and on the life and achievements of Ross's grandfather, Keisaburo Koda, the founder of the business and the so-called \"Rice King.\" After introducing Ross and his sister Robin, the story turns toward Keisaburo's story, going back to his hometown in Japan and interviewing relatives—his family had had a rice milling business in Iwaki City, Fukushima prefecture—and others in the town. Determined to come to the U.S., which he viewed as a land of opportunity, Keisaburo rose from a farm laborer to a profitable rice farmer before World War II. But like all West Coast Japanese Americans, he was forcibly removed, and spent the war years in the\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Amache_(Granada)\" title=\"Amache (Granada)\">\n Amache\n </a>\n , Colorado, concentration camp. Former Amache inmates Minoru Tonai, Jack Muro, and Nob Hashimoto recall the camp and their memories of Koda. Returning to Dos Palos after the war, he and his son Ed rebuilt the business. The video also notes Keisaburo's community leadership, noting his role in fighting for\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Issei\" title=\"Issei\">\n Issei\n </a>\n citizenship and his first return trip to Japan after the war where he was given a hero's welcome in his hometown. (The video does not mention Koda's decades long fight to recoup wartime losses through the\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Japanese_American_Evacuation_Claims_Act\" title=\"Japanese American Evacuation Claims Act\">\n Japanese American Evacuation Claims Act\n </a>\n .) The story then turns to Ross and the current operation of the farm, noting their turn to producing organic products and the problems brought on by California's continued drought through interviews with many employees and associates. We also meet Ross's Japan-born wife and his two young daughters.\n </p>\n <p>\n <i>\n Seed\n </i>\n is one of several films on Japanese American topics produced by Nitto Tire, U.S.A. The feature-length film was produced and directed by Masanori Baba.\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/Changing Season: On the Masumoto Family Farm (film)/\" title=\"Changing Season: On the Masumoto Family Farm (film)\">\n Changing Season: On the Masumoto Family Farm\n </a>\n (2015);\n <i>\n <a class=\"encyc rg\" href=\"/wiki/Our American Family: The Furutas (film)/\" title=\"Our American Family: The Furutas (film)\">\n Our American Family: The Furutas\n </a>\n </i>\n (2015);\n <i>\n <a class=\"encyc rg\" href=\"/wiki/Chrysanthemums and Salt (film)/\" title=\"Chrysanthemums and Salt (film)\">\n Chrysanthemums and Salt\n </a>\n </i>\n (1994)\n </p>\n</div>\n",
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