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\n Title:Yonsei Eyes;\nDate:2017; \nGenre:Documentary;\nReleased:;\nDirector:Jon Osaki;\nProducer:Jon Osaki;\nWriter:;\nScreenplay:;\nStory:;\nBasedOn:;\nNarrator:;\nStarring:Mika Osaki; Lee Osaki; Tsukasa Matsueda; Wayne Osaki;\nMusic:;\nCinematography:;\nEditing:;\nStudio:JJML Productions Film;\nDistributor:;\nRuntime:22 minutes;\nCountry:;\nLanguage:;\nBudget:;\nGross:;\nIMDBLink:\n \n https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6730618/\n \n ;\nTrailerLink:;\n

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\n Documentary film that follows young Yonsei siblings Mika & Lee Osaki as they go on a\n \n pilgrimage\n \n to\n \n Tule Lake\n \n in 2016, their first trip to the camp in which both of their grandfathers had been held. Mika and Lee's narration of their trip is intercut with interview footage of both grandfathers, Tsukasa Matsueda (1925–2011) and Wayne Osaki (1923–2015).\n

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\n San Francisco based filmmaker Jon Osaki, the executive director of the Japanese Community Youth Council, has made several other films that address the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans and the its relevance to current issues, including\n \n Alternative Facts: The Lies of Executive Order 9066\n \n (2018) (which also features Mika Osaki) and\n \n Reparations\n \n (2021).\n

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\n \n Authored by\n \n Brian Niiya\n \n , Densho\n \n
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\n Niiya, Brian\n
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\n Might also like\n \n Alternative Facts: The Lies of Executive Order 9066\n \n (2018);\n \n \n After Silence: Civil Rights and the Japanese American Experience\n \n \n (2003);\n \n \n Citizen Tanouye\n \n \n (2005)\n

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\n Official website:\n \n https://www.jjmlproductions.com/yonsei-eyes\n \n

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