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The film was funded by the Bainbridge Island Parks & Trails Foundation and City of Bainbridge Island.","url_title":"Point of Departure (film)","categories":["Arts"],"rg_rgmediatype":["films"],"rg_interestlevel":["Grades 9-12","Adult"],"rg_genre":["Documentary","History"],"rg_theme":["Expression through art","Power of the past","Rebirth"],"rg_availability":["Widely available"],"rg_rgmediatype_label":"Films and Video","rg_rgmediatype_icon":"fa-film"},{"id":"Nobuko Miyamoto: A Song in Movement (film)","model":"article","index":"1 1/{'value': 14, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/Nobuko%20Miyamoto:%20A%20Song%20in%20Movement%20(film)/","json":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/api/3.0/articles/Nobuko%20Miyamoto:%20A%20Song%20in%20Movement%20(film)/"},"title":"Nobuko Miyamoto: A Song in Movement (film)","description":"Documentary profile of performing artist and activist\n  \n   Nobuko Miyamoto\n  \n  tracing her early career as a precocious dancer and singer on Broadway and in Hollywood followed by a political awakening that saw her and her songwriting partner Chris Iijima become the musical voice of the Asian American Movement. The film traces her life as a single mother in Los Angeles, where she teaches dance out of the Senshin Buddhist Temple before forming the Asian American performing arts company Great Leap. 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The twelve-minute film produced and directed by Lucy Ostrander provides a brief history of the community going back to the late 1800s, covers their wartime eviction and incarceration, and includes scenes from a contemporary\n  \n   mochitsuki\n  \n  , the traditional pounding of rice cakes to mark the new year. The story is largely told through Junkoh Harui, a\n  \n   Nisei\n  \n  , who recounts his Japanese immigrant father's arrival on Bainbridge to work in a sawmill before starting a number of businesses, including a store and Bainbridge Gardens. Other interviewees include Fumiko Hayashida, a woman famous for a photograph of her and her young daughter being forcibly removed during World War II; Hayashida later became the subject of\n  \n   another short documentary\n  \n  by Ostrander and her production partner Don Sellers. The title of the film comes from the Japanese red pine trees that Harui's father planted on the island that sprouted during the community's absence during World War II.","url_title":"The Red Pines: Japanese-Americans on Bainbridge Island (film)","categories":["Arts"],"rg_rgmediatype":["films"],"rg_interestlevel":["Grades 9-12","Adult"],"rg_genre":["Documentary","History"],"rg_theme":["Displacement","Power of tradition","Rebirth"],"rg_availability":["Widely available"],"rg_rgmediatype_label":"Films and Video","rg_rgmediatype_icon":"fa-film"},{"id":"Instructions to All Persons: Reflections on Executive Order 9066 (exhibition)","model":"article","index":"3 3/{'value': 14, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/Instructions%20to%20All%20Persons:%20Reflections%20on%20Executive%20Order%209066%20(exhibition)/","json":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/api/3.0/articles/Instructions%20to%20All%20Persons:%20Reflections%20on%20Executive%20Order%209066%20(exhibition)/"},"title":"Instructions to All Persons: Reflections on Executive Order 9066 (exhibition)","description":"Exhibition mounted by the\n  \n   Japanese American National Museum\n  \n  (JANM) to commemorate the 75th anniversary of\n  \n   Executive Order 9066\n  \n  .","url_title":"Instructions to All Persons: Reflections on Executive Order 9066 (exhibition)","categories":["Chroniclers"],"rg_rgmediatype":["exhibitions"],"rg_interestlevel":["Grades 3-5","Grades 7-8","Grades 9-12","Adult"],"rg_genre":["History"],"rg_theme":["Evils of racism","Injustice","Power of the past","Rebirth","Wisdom of experience"],"rg_availability":["No availability"],"rg_rgmediatype_label":"Museum Exhibitions","rg_rgmediatype_icon":"fa-university"},{"id":"Island Roots (film)","model":"article","index":"4 4/{'value': 14, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/Island%20Roots%20(film)/","json":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/api/3.0/articles/Island%20Roots%20(film)/"},"title":"Island Roots (film)","description":"Short documentary film on the Filipino American community on\n  \n   Bainbridge Island, Washington\n  \n  from the migration of the first immigrants in the late 1920s to the present day. Many came to Bainbridge to serve as farm laborers on strawberry farms run by Japanese Americans. During World War II, when Japanese Americans were forcibly removed from Bainbridge and the entire West Coast, many turned their farms over to their Filipino American farmhands to mange in their absence. As a result, many Japanese American farmers were able to return to intact farms after the war. Some Filipino Americans were able to use this as a jumping off point to owning their own farms after the war. The film concludes with the restoration of the Filipino American community hall on Bainbridge and the return of the Strawberry Festival that serve as the center of the community in the present.","url_title":"Island Roots (film)","categories":["Arts"],"rg_rgmediatype":["films"],"rg_interestlevel":["Grades 9-12","Adult"],"rg_genre":["Documentary","History"],"rg_theme":["Change versus tradition","Rebirth"],"rg_availability":["Widely available"],"rg_rgmediatype_label":"Films and Video","rg_rgmediatype_icon":"fa-film"},{"id":"Passing It On--A Memoir (book)","model":"article","index":"5 5/{'value': 14, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/Passing%20It%20On--A%20Memoir%20(book)/","json":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/api/3.0/articles/Passing%20It%20On--A%20Memoir%20(book)/"},"title":"Passing It On--A Memoir (book)","description":"Leading human rights activist reflects on her life, including her insulated childhood and the wartime incarceration experience that awakened her lifelong commitment to advocacy for all marginalized peoples.","url_title":"Passing It On--A Memoir (book)","rg_rgmediatype":["books"],"rg_genre":["Memoir"],"rg_theme":["Coming of age","Overcoming - fear, weakness, vice","Rebirth","Rights - individual or societal"],"rg_availability":["Available"],"rg_rgmediatype_label":"Books","rg_rgmediatype_icon":"fa-book"},{"id":"Resettled Roots: Legacies of Japanese Americans in Chicago (film)","model":"article","index":"6 6/{'value': 14, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/Resettled%20Roots:%20Legacies%20of%20Japanese%20Americans%20in%20Chicago%20(film)/","json":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/api/3.0/articles/Resettled%20Roots:%20Legacies%20of%20Japanese%20Americans%20in%20Chicago%20(film)/"},"title":"Resettled Roots: Legacies of Japanese Americans in Chicago (film)","description":"Documentary film on the evolution of the Japanese American community in\n  \n   Chicago\n  \n  . Directors Anna Takada and Maria Pimentel tell the story using a generational framework with a brief prologue on Japanese immigration and the prewar\n  \n   Issei\n  \n  era and a longer segment on the wartime roundup and incarceration centered on the\n  \n   Nisei\n  \n  , before turning to Nisei and\n  \n   Sansei\n  \n  recollections of resettlement to Chicago and growing up there after the war. Many of the Sansei recall their parents' silence about their wartime experiences. The last segment focuses on\n  \n   Yonsei\n  \n  and recent activism featuring 2019 footage from an all camps reunion in Chicago and on a protest march that saw Chicago Japanese Americans drawing on their history to protest immigrant detention and deportation today.","url_title":"Resettled Roots: Legacies of Japanese Americans in Chicago (film)","categories":["Arts","Resettlement"],"rg_rgmediatype":["films"],"rg_interestlevel":["Grades 7-8","Grades 9-12","Adult"],"rg_genre":["Documentary"],"rg_theme":["Importance of community","Power of silence","Rebirth"],"rg_availability":["Available"],"rg_rgmediatype_label":"Films and Video","rg_rgmediatype_icon":"fa-film"},{"id":"Reunion (short story)","model":"article","index":"7 7/{'value': 14, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/Reunion%20(short%20story)/","json":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/api/3.0/articles/Reunion%20(short%20story)/"},"title":"Reunion (short story)","description":"Short story by\n  \n   Hisaye Yamamoto\n  \n  centering on a\n  \n   Nisei\n  \n  man named Tak who attends a\n  \n   pilgrimage\n  \n  to\n  \n   Poston\n  \n  , where he had been incarcerated during the war. The story begins with his noticing a striking woman at the reunion dressed in buckskin; he wonders if she is Native American. A visit to the memorial at the site conjures memories of his family's wartime experience: removed from Los Angeles, they left Poston to\n  \n   resettle in Chicago\n  \n  ; his older sister had left earlier on her own to study nursing in Cleveland. He went to high school in Chicago and to college back in Los Angeles, eventually marrying and raising three daughters. But after his wife's death just a year prior, he found himself alone. On the bus ride home, he is surprised to find the buckskin woman on the same bus. She sits across the aisle from him, and he overhears her talking about being twelve in camp and being fascinated by an American Indian man who visited the camp on a white horse that he sometimes let the inmate kids ride. He also discovers that she is a widow. After imagining different scenarios about the woman and the Indian man, he works up the courage to ask her to join him for lunch.","url_title":"Reunion (short story)","categories":["Arts"],"rg_rgmediatype":["short stories"],"rg_interestlevel":["Grades 9-12","Adult"],"rg_genre":["Fiction"],"rg_theme":["Lost love","Rebirth","Reunion"],"rg_availability":["No availability"],"rg_rgmediatype_label":"Short Stories","rg_rgmediatype_icon":"fa-file-text"},{"id":"East of Occidental: The History of Seattle's Chinatown (film)","model":"article","index":"8 8/{'value': 14, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/East%20of%20Occidental:%20The%20History%20of%20Seattle's%20Chinatown%20(film)/","json":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/api/3.0/articles/East%20of%20Occidental:%20The%20History%20of%20Seattle's%20Chinatown%20(film)/"},"title":"East of Occidental: The History of Seattle's Chinatown (film)","description":"Documentary film on Seattle's Chinatown/\n  \n   International District\n  \n  that outlines the history of the area and argues that pan-Asian Americanism makes it unique among American ethnic enclaves. 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Funding for the program was provided by grants from the Henry and Tomoye Takahashi Charitable Foundation, Adrian and Monica Yeung Arima, and members of KVIE.","url_title":"Resettlement to Redress: Rebirth of the Japanese-American Community (film)","categories":["Arts"],"rg_rgmediatype":["films"],"rg_interestlevel":["Grades 6-8","Grades 9-12","Adult"],"rg_genre":["Documentary"],"rg_theme":["Injustice","Rebirth"],"rg_availability":["Widely available"],"rg_rgmediatype_label":"Films and Video","rg_rgmediatype_icon":"fa-film"},{"id":"Return to the Valley: Japanese American Experience After WWII (film)","model":"article","index":"13 13/{'value': 14, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/Return%20to%20the%20Valley:%20Japanese%20American%20Experience%20After%20WWII%20(film)/","json":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/api/3.0/articles/Return%20to%20the%20Valley:%20Japanese%20American%20Experience%20After%20WWII%20(film)/"},"title":"Return to the Valley: Japanese American Experience After WWII (film)","description":"Documentary film that tells the story of Japanese Americans returning to the Santa Clara, Salinas and Pajaro Valleys and the Central Coast after World War II. 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