Old Man River

Winner of Cinequest and Vermont Film Festivals and the American Cinema Editors Eddy Award for Best Edited Documentary.

Mar 03, 1999 1h 14m

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Documentary

Synopsis

Documentary film version of the stage show in which actress Cynthia Gates Fujikawa explores the story of her father, actor Jerry Fujikawa, who had a long career in films and television, most often as a stereotyped Asian. The daughter, in the course of searching out her late father's history, discovers many things that she had not known, among them that her father had spent time in Manzanar, the internment camp for Japanese-Americans during World War II, that he had had a family prior to hers, and that somewhere out there was a sister she had never known existed.

Title	Old Man River
Companies	716 Productions
Countries	United States of America
Keywords	world war ii, racial stereotype, japanese american, internment camp, japanese american internment, 1940s, father daughter relationship, independent film, long lost sibling, japanese american history, family secret