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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 85 min.) |
| Summary |
Like many innocent Japanese Americans released from WWII forced incarceration camps, the young Omori sisters did their best to erase the memories and scars of life under confinement. Fifty years later acclaimed filmmaker Emiko Omori asks her older sister and other detainees to reflect on the personal and political consequences of the camps. Visually stunning and emotionally compelling, Rabbit in the Moon uses eye witness accounts to examine issues that created deep rifts within the community, reveals the racist subtext of the loyalty questionnaire, and the absurdity of the military draft within the camps. Omori renders a poetic and illuminating picture of a deeply troubling chapter in American history |
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Title from title frames |
| Credits |
Cameras, Witt Montas, Emiko Omori ; editors, Pat Jackson, Emiko Omori |
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Narrated by Emiko Omori |
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Commentary: Chizuko Omori, Frank Emi, Aiko Yoshinaga-Herzig, James Hirabayashi, Hisaye Yamamoto, Shosuke Sasaki, Ernest Besig, Harry Ueno, Mits Koshiyama, Frank Miyamoto, Hiroshi Kashiwagi, James Omura |
| Event |
Originally produced by Emiko Omori in 1999 |
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Closed captioned |
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Best Documentary Cinematography, Sundance Film Festival; Outstanding Historical Programming, National Emmy |
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Manzanar War Relocation Center.
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Heart Mountain Relocation Center (Wyo.)
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Tule Lake Relocation Center
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Poston Relocation Center (Ariz.)
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Heart Mountain Relocation Center (Wyo.) fast |
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Manzanar War Relocation Center fast |
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Poston Relocation Center (Ariz.) fast |
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Tule Lake Relocation Center fast |
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Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 -- Personal narratives
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Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 -- Psychological aspects
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Internment camps -- California.
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Internment camps -- Arizona
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Internment camps -- Wyoming
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Draft resisters.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Japanese American.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Japanese Americans -- Personal narratives
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Loyalty oaths -- United States.
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Internment camps
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Draft resisters
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Japanese Americans
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Loyalty oaths
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Arizona
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California
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United States
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Wyoming
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documentary film.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired
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Nonfiction films
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Historical films
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Feature films
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Documentary films
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Personal narratives
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Documentary films.
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Nonfiction films.
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Feature films.
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Historical films.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Documentaires.
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Films autres que de fiction.
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Films historiques.
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Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives.
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Streaming video
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| Author |
Omori, Emiko, producer, screenwriter, director, narrator.
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Omori, Chizuko, producer.
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Emi, Frank, interviewee (expression)
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Yoshinaga-Herzig, Aiko, interviewee (expression)
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Hirabayashi, James A., interviewee (expression)
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Yamamoto, Hisaye, interviewee (expression)
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Sasaki, Shosuke, interviewee (expression)
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Besig, Ernest, 1904-1998, interviewee (expression)
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Ueno, Harry Y. (Harry Yoshio), 1907-2004, interviewee (expression)
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Koshiyama, Mits, 1924-2009, interviewee (expression)
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Miyamoto, Shotaro Frank, 1912-2012, interviewee (expression)
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Kashiwagi, Hiroshi, 1922-2019, interviewee (expression)
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Omura, James Matsumoto, 1912-1994, interviewee (expression)
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Wabi-Sabi Productions (Firm), production company.
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