History and Memory: For Akiko and Takashige (1991)
32m
Running Time
April 10, 1991Release Date
History and Memory: For Akiko and Takashige (1991)
32m
Running Time
April 10, 1991Release Date
Plot.
This film is a poetic composition of recorded history and non-recorded memory. Filmmaker Rea Tajiri’s family was among the 120,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans who were imprisoned in internment camps after the attack on Pearl Harbor. And like so many who were in the camps, Tajiri’s family wrapped their memories of that experience in a shroud of silence and forgetting. This film raises questions about collective history – questions that prompt Tajiri to daringly re-imagine and re-create what has been stolen and what has been lost.
Where to Watch.
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Cast & Crew.
Eric Davies
Researcher
Rea Tajiri
Director
Noel Shaw
Additional Writing
Angel Velasco Shaw
Cinematographer
Robert Burden
Editor
Sokhi Wagner
Additional Writing
Details.
This Movie Is About.
pearl harbor
memory
woman director
japanese american internment
Wiki.
History and Memory: For Akiko and Takashige is a 1991 documentary film by Rea Tajiri. In her film, Tajiri recalls her family's experience of the American internment of the Japanese during World War II.History and Memory explores the story beyond the recorded history of the internment of the Japanese and Japanese Americans. The film premiered at the 1991 Whitney Biennial exhibition, and has since been screened over 250 times.