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"body": "<div class=\"mw-parser-output\">\n <div id=\"databox-Films\" style=\"display:none;\">\n <p>\n Title:Something Strong Within;\nDate:1994; \nGenre:;\nReleased:;\nDirector:Robert A. Nakamura;\nProducer:Karen L. Ishizuka;\nWriter:Karen L. Ishizuka;\nScreenplay:;\nStory:;\nBasedOn:;\nNarrator:;\nStarring:;\nMusic:Dan Kuramoto;\nCinematography:;\nEditing:Robert A. Nakamura;\nStudio:Japanese American National Museum;\nDistributor:;\nRuntime:40 minutes;\nCountry:;\nLanguage:;\nBudget:;\nGross:;\nIMDBLink:\n <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2470144/\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2470144/\n </a>\n ;\nTrailerLink:;\n </p>\n </div>\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:Something Strong Within;\nCreators:;\nInterestLevel:Grades 6-8; Grades 9-12; Adult;\nReadingLevel:;\nGuidedReadingLevel:;\nLexile:;\nTheme:Displacement; Will to survive;\nGenre:Documentary;\nPoV:Japanese American incarcerees;\nRelatedEvents:;\nAvailability:Available;\nFreeWebVersion:No;\nPrimarySecondary:;\nHasTeachingAids:Yes;\nWarnings:NR (Not Rated);\nDenshoTopic:;\nGeography:United States;\nChronology:1930s-1940s;\nFacility:Multiple;\n </p>\n </div>\n </div>\n <p>\n Documentary film by pioneering director Robert A. Nakamura crafted out of amateur home movie footage shot in American concentration camps. Nakamura and producer/writer Karen L. Ishizuka produced\n <i>\n Something Strong Within\n </i>\n for the\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 (JANM) as a companion piece to the exhibition\n <i>\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/America%27s_Concentration_Camps_(exhibition)\" title=\"America's Concentration Camps (exhibition)\">\n America's Concentration Camps\n </a>\n </i>\n , curated by Ishizuka, which opened on November 11, 1994.\n </p>\n <p>\n Initially, Nakamura—whose 1971 film\n <i>\n <a class=\"encyc rg\" href=\"/wiki/Manzanar (film)/\" title=\"Manzanar (film)\">\n Manzanar\n </a>\n </i>\n was the first documentary film on the concentration camps by a Japanese American—intended to make a conventional documentary that included interviews, photographs, and artifacts. [B]ut when I saw the home movie footage,\" he told Arnold Hiura, \"I knew I had a chance to do what I've always kind of dreamt of doing—show an insider's perspective. We're tired of an outsider's view. It's not newsreel; it's not\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/OWI/WRA_documentaries\" title=\"OWI/WRA documentaries\">\n WRA\n </a>\n . This is it.\"\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 The footage—collected, transferred and preserved by Ishizuka and Nakamura—was mostly shot surreptitiously by Japanese American inmates, and most had never been seen by the public. Nakamura eventually decided not to use any voice-over narration and to use only minimal text: only brief introductory text at the beginning and occasional captions identifying filmmakers and camps, providing quotes by inmates, or providing explanation of a scene. He also decided to show not only the stark or bleak images often associated with incarceration, but seemingly happy images as well, intercutting them to show that \"there's a lot of strength in the people surviving, and the kids maintaining a sort of normal atmosphere in a very abnormal situation.\"\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 Dan Kuramoto, best known as the leader of the popular band Hiroshima, composed original music for the film. The original home movie footage was drawn from the collections of Masayoshi Endo, Naokichi Hashizume, Akira and Yoshio Hayashi, Franklin Johnson, Eichi Edward Sakauye, George Sagara,\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Dave_Tatsuno\" title=\"Dave Tatsuno\">\n Dave Tatsuno\n </a>\n , and Gunji Watanabe.\n </p>\n <p>\n The finished film became a key part of the\n <i>\n America's Concentration Camps\n </i>\n exhibition, \"a bonafide people magnet at the exhibit.\"\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 It also appeared in many film festivals and won numerous awards, including a 1996 CINE Golden Eagle and a 1995 Silver Muse Award from the American Association of Museums. The film accompanied the traveling version of the exhibition to venues in New York, Atlanta, San Francisco, and Little Rock and was also featured in subsequent exhibitions at JANM, including\n <i>\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Fighting_for_Tomorrow:_Japanese_Americans_in_America%27s_Wars_(exhibition)\" title=\"Fighting for Tomorrow: Japanese Americans in America's Wars (exhibition)\">\n Fighting for Tomorrow: Japanese Americans in America's Wars\n </a>\n </i>\n and\n <i>\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Common_Ground:_The_Heart_of_Community_(exhibition)\" title=\"Common Ground: The Heart of Community (exhibition)\">\n Common Ground: The Heart of Community\n </a>\n </i>\n .\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/Manzanar (film)/\" title=\"Manzanar (film)\">\n Manzanar\n </a>\n </i>\n (1971);\n <i>\n <a class=\"encyc rg\" href=\"/wiki/Dave Tatsuno: Movies and Memories (film)/\" title=\"Dave Tatsuno: Movies and Memories (film)\">\n Dave Tatsuno: Movies and Memories\n </a>\n </i>\n (2006);\n <i>\n <a class=\"encyc rg\" href=\"/wiki/Encounter with the Past: American Japanese Internment in World War II (film)/\" title=\"Encounter with the Past: American Japanese Internment in World War II (film)\">\n Encounter with the Past: American Japanese Internment in World War II\n </a>\n </i>\n (1980)\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</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 Hiura, Arnold T. \"'Something Strong Within': People's Perspective Prevails Throughout JANM's Exhibit on WWII Concentration Camps.\"\n <i>\n Hawaii Herald\n </i>\n , June 2, 1995, A-8.\n </p>\n <p>\n Ishizuka, Karen L.\n <i>\n Lost and Found: Reclaiming the Japanese American Incarceration\n </i>\n . Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006.\n </p>\n <p>\n ---. \"\n <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"http://dspace.unav.es/dspace/bitstream/10171/18498/1/Ishizuka%20Through%20Own%20Eyes%202.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n Through Our Own Eyes: Making Movies with Japanese American Home Movies.\n </a>\n \"\n </p>\n <p>\n ---, and Robert A. Nakamura. \"Something Strong Within: A Visual Essay.\" In\n <i>\n Mining the Home Movie: Excavations in Histories and Memories\n </i>\n . Edited by Karen L. Ishizuka and Patricia R. Zimmermann. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. 98–106.\n </p>\n <p>\n James, David E.\n <i>\n The Most Typical Avant-Garde: History and Geography of Minor Cinemas in Los Angeles\n </i>\n . Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.\n </p>\n <p>\n Kikumura-Yano, Akemi, Lane Ryo Hirabayashi and James A. Hirabayashi eds.\n <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"https://archive.org/details/commongroundjapa00kiku\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n <i>\n Common Ground: The Japanese American National Museum and the Culture of Collaborations\n </i>\n </a>\n . Colorado: University Press of Colorado, 2005.\n </p>\n <p>\n Rosen, Robert. \"\n <i>\n Something Strong Within\n </i>\n as Historical Memory.\" In\n <i>\n Mining the Home Movie: Excavations in Histories and Memories\n </i>\n . Edited by Karen L. Ishizuka and Patricia R. Zimmermann. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. 107–21.\n </p>\n <p>\n \"\n <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"http://www.janm.org/mediaarts/productions/ssw/\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n Something Strong Within\n </a>\n \" on Japanese American National Museum website.\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 Arnold T. Hiura, \"'Something Strong Within': People's Perspective Prevails Throughout JANM's Exhibit on WWII Concentration Camps,\"\n <i>\n Hawaii Herald\n </i>\n , June 2, 1995, A8–9.\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 Hiura, \"'Something Strong Within,'\" A9.\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 Hiura, \"'Something Strong Within,'\" A8.\n </span>\n </li>\n </ol>\n </div>\n </div>\n <!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCached time: 20230613175537\nCache expiry: 86400\nDynamic content: false\nComplications: []\nCPU time usage: 0.026 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.035 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 472/1000000\nPost‐expand include size: 8398/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 1161/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 6/40\nExpensive parser function count: 0/100\nUnstrip recursion depth: 0/20\nUnstrip post‐expand size: 1096/5000000 bytes\nExtLoops count: 0\n-->\n <!--\nTransclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template)\n100.00% 22.728 1 -total\n 12.25% 2.783 1 Template:RelatedArticles\n 11.39% 2.589 1 Template:Reflist\n 10.82% 2.460 1 Template:Databox-Films\n 10.29% 2.338 1 Template:RGDatabox-Core\n 6.04% 1.373 1 Template:Published\n 6.00% 1.364 1 Template:RelatedArticlesSection\n 5.97% 1.357 1 Template:AuthorByline\n 5.77% 1.312 1 Template:publish-rgonly\n-->\n <!-- Saved in parser cache with key encycmw:pcache:idhash:2247-0!canonical and timestamp 20230613175537 and revision id 30212\n -->\n </div>\n</div>"
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