Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.

See what’s playing
History and Memory: For Akiko and Takashige
History and Memory: For Akiko and Takashige
8.0
/10
10 Ratings

HISTORY AND MEMORY: FOR AKIKO AND TAKASHIGE

Directed by Rea Tajiri
United States, 1991
Documentary, Avant-Garde, Short, Biography

Synopsis

Groundbreaking and haunting, 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.

Synopsis

Groundbreaking and haunting, 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.