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Title Sleeping Tigers: The Asahi Baseball Story National Film Board of Canada
Published Montreal : National Film Board of Canada, 2002

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Description 1 streaming video file (51 min.) : digital, stereo, sound, color
Summary In pre-World War II Vancouver the Asahi baseball team was unbeatable, outplaying the taller Caucasian teams and winning the prestigious Pacific Northwest Championship for five straight years. When Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, the Canadian government sent every person of Japanese descent, whether born in Canada or not, to internment camps. Faced with hardship and isolation, the former Asahi members survived by playing baseball. Their passion for this quintessential North American game soon attracted other players, including RCMP and local townspeople, and the baseball games helped to break down racial and cultural barriers. In Sleeping Tigers, award-winning director Jari Osborne skillfully weaves archival film and dramatic re-creations, along with candid interviews with the last of the Asahi, to tell this remarkable story
Notes Documentary - Ontario
Credits Writer/director, Jari Osborne ; producer, Karen King-Chigbo ; narrator, Robert Ito ; editor, Ricardo Acosta ; director of photography, Michael Grippo ; sound design, Alan Geldart ; original music, Guy Zerafa ; sound recordist, Jim Ursulak ; visual researcher, Tanya Fleet ; consultant, Norah Wakula ; re-recording mixer, Steve Munro, Timothy Mehlenbacher ; foley artist, Sid Lieberman ; art director, Robyn Badger ; costume designer, Maia Daniel ; makeup artist, Lisa Brown ; senior producer, Silva Basmajian ; executive producer, Louise Lore, Sylvia Sweeney ; actor, Bryce Davie, Chris Morton, Trevor Jey Shimizu, Mike Takahashi, Ted Wakabayashi, Samuel Yamada, Chardin Jarret-Amor, Ben McPhee, Aaron Pitts, James Rutherford, Troy Weston, Sano Erik Liyoshi
Notes CHV rating: G
Régie du cinéma du Québec rating: G
Mode of access: World Wide Web
Subject Vancouver Asahi (Baseball team)
SUBJECT Vancouver Asahi (Baseball team) fast
Subject Baseball players -- British Columbia -- Vancouver
Baseball players
British Columbia -- Vancouver
Genre/Form documentary film.
Feature films
Documentary films
Documentary films.
Feature films.
Documentaires.
Form Streaming video
Author National Film Board of Canada.