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"description": "Documentary film released in 1984 that tells the story of the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans through\n \n Minoru Yasui\n \n ,\n \n Fred Korematsu\n \n , and\n \n Gordon Hirabayashi\n \n , three men who challenged their forced removal in the courts, along with the subsequent resurrection of their legal cases in 1980s.\n \n Unfinished Business\n \n was nominated for an Academy Award for \"Best Documentary Feature\" for the year 1985. Primary funding for the film came from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation.",
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"body": "<div class=\"mw-parser-output\">\n <div id=\"databox-Films\" style=\"display:none;\">\n <p>\n Title:Unfinished Business: The Japanese American Internment Cases;\nDate:1985; \nGenre:;\nReleased:;\nDirector:Steven Okazaki;\nProducer:Steven Okazaki; Jane Kaihatsu;\nWriter:Laura Ide; Jane Kaihatsu; Steven Okazaki; Kei Yokomizo;\nScreenplay:;\nStory:;\nBasedOn:;\nNarrator:Amy Hill;\nStarring:Gordon Hirabayashi; Fred Korematsu; Min Yasui;\nMusic:;\nCinematography:Steven Okazaki;\nEditing:Steven Okazaki;\nStudio:;\nDistributor:;\nRuntime:58 minutes;\nCountry:;\nLanguage:;\nBudget:;\nGross:;\nIMDBLink:\n <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092136/\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092136/\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:Unfinished Business;\nCreators:;\nInterestLevel:;\nReadingLevel:;\nGuidedReadingLevel:;\nLexile:;\nTheme:;\nGenre:;\nPoV:;\nRelatedEvents:;\nAvailability:;\nFreeWebVersion:No;\nPrimarySecondary:;\nHasTeachingAids:No;\nWarnings:;\nDenshoTopic:;\nGeography:;\nChronology:;\nFacility:;\n </p>\n </div>\n </div>\n <p>\n Documentary film released in 1984 that tells the story of the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans through\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Minoru_Yasui\" title=\"Minoru Yasui\">\n Minoru Yasui\n </a>\n ,\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Fred_Korematsu\" title=\"Fred Korematsu\">\n Fred Korematsu\n </a>\n , and\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Gordon_Hirabayashi\" title=\"Gordon Hirabayashi\">\n Gordon Hirabayashi\n </a>\n , three men who challenged their forced removal in the courts, along with the subsequent resurrection of their legal cases in 1980s.\n <i>\n Unfinished Business\n </i>\n was nominated for an Academy Award for \"Best Documentary Feature\" for the year 1985. Primary funding for the film came from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation.\n </p>\n <p>\n <i>\n Unfinished Business: The Japanese American Internment Cases\n </i>\n was produced, directed and photographed by\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Steven_Okazaki\" title=\"Steven Okazaki\">\n Steven Okazaki\n </a>\n . The first half of the film introduces Yausi, Korematsu, and Hirabayashi using contemporary interviews, period photographs, archival footage. Their story is then broadened into a more general one on the overall forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, augmented with interviews with legal scholar\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Peter_Irons\" title=\"Peter Irons\">\n Peter Irons\n </a>\n and historian Roger Daniels (who is listed as the \"Consultant\" in the credits). After a series of interviews with unnamed\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Nisei\" title=\"Nisei\">\n Nisei\n </a>\n and\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Sansei\" title=\"Sansei\">\n Sansei\n </a>\n discussing their wartime experiences and the the impact on their generation respectively, the second half of the film looks at the 1980s reopening of the three men's legal cases through the writ of error\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Coram_nobis_cases\" title=\"Coram nobis cases\">\n coram nobis\n </a>\n that were then ongoing, along with the broader context of the\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Redress_movement\" title=\"Redress movement\">\n Redress Movement\n </a>\n and events such as\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Days_of_Remembrance\" title=\"Days of Remembrance\">\n Days of Remembrance\n </a>\n . We meet two of the lawyers on the coram nobis cases,\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Lorraine_Bannai\" title=\"Lorraine Bannai\">\n Lorraine Bannai\n </a>\n and\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Dale_Minami\" title=\"Dale Minami\">\n Dale Minami\n </a>\n , and see the lawyers at work. The film ends with\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Marilyn_Hall_Patel\" title=\"Marilyn Hall Patel\">\n Judge Marilyn Patel\n </a>\n granting Korematsu's coram nobis petition; at the time the film was made, the\n <i>\n Yasui\n </i>\n and\n <i>\n Hirabayashi\n </i>\n cases were still pending.\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/Of Civil Wrongs and Rights: The Fred Korematsu Story (film)/\" title=\"Of Civil Wrongs and Rights: The Fred Korematsu Story (film)\">\n Of Civil Wrongs and Rights: The Fred Korematsu Story\n </a>\n ' (2000);\n </i>\n <a class=\"encyc rg\" href=\"/wiki/A Personal Matter: Gordon Hirabayashi vs. the United States (film)/\" title=\"A Personal Matter: Gordon Hirabayashi vs. the United States (film)\">\n A Personal Matter: Gordon Hirabayashi vs. the United States\n </a>\n <i>\n (1992);\n </i>\n <a class=\"encyc rg\" href=\"/wiki/Fighting for Justice: The Coram Nobis Cases (film)/\" title=\"Fighting for Justice: The Coram Nobis Cases (film)\">\n Fighting for Justice: The Coram Nobis Cases\n </a>\n <i>\n (1999)\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/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>\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 Official Farallon Films website,\n <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"http://www.farfilm.com/films/unfinished-business.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n http://www.farfilm.com/films/unfinished-business.html\n </a>\n .\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>",
"reviews": "<div class=\"section\" id=\"Reviews\">\n <h2>\n <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Reviews\">\n Reviews\n </span>\n </h2>\n <div class=\"section_content\">\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 Mitgang, Herbert.\n <i>\n <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/1985/10/08/movies/tv-review-unfinished-business-about-japanese-american-internment.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n New York Times\n </a>\n </i>\n , Oct. 8, 1985.\n </p>\n <p>\n Stone, Judy. \"New Look at Internment of Japanese Americans.\"\n <i>\n San Francisco Chronicle\n </i>\n . February 21, 1985.\n </p>\n <p>\n Thomas, Kevin.\n <i>\n <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/1985-01-26/entertainment/ca-13872_1_unfinished-business\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n Los Angeles Times\n </a>\n </i>\n , Jan. 26, 1985.\n </p>\n <!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCached time: 20230613175603\nCache expiry: 86400\nDynamic content: false\nComplications: []\nCPU time usage: 0.021 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.028 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 393/1000000\nPost‐expand include size: 6390/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 996/2097152 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% 11.766 1 -total\n 23.61% 2.778 1 Template:RelatedArticles\n 20.97% 2.468 1 Template:Databox-Films\n 19.64% 2.311 1 Template:RGDatabox-Core\n 11.88% 1.398 1 Template:RelatedArticlesSection\n 11.51% 1.354 1 Template:AuthorByline\n 11.47% 1.350 1 Template:Published\n 10.96% 1.290 1 Template:publish-rgonly\n-->\n <!-- Saved in parser cache with key encycmw:pcache:idhash:1468-0!canonical and timestamp 20230613175603 and revision id 28643\n -->\n </div>\n</div>"
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