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The Chessmen (film)
- Films and Video
- Grades 9-12, Adult
- Capitalism – effect on the individual, Necessity of work, Working class struggles
- Widely available
Short narrative film about Japanese Americans struggling to run a flower nursery set in Northern California in 1949. Based on a short story by Toshio Mori , filmmaker Ken Kokka made the film as a film student at UCLA.