Farewell to Manzanar (1976) (TV)

User Rating:

8.1/10   

Director:

John Korty

Writers:

James D. Houston (book)
James D. Houston (screenplay)

Release Date:

11 March 1976 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

Fact based drama about one of the internment camps used by the American military during World War II...

Plot Keywords:

Internment Camp | Japanese | WWII | Nisei | Based On Book

Awards:

Nominated for 2 Primetime Emmys. Another 1 win

Cast

Yuki Shimoda	...	Ko Wakatsuki
Nobu McCarthy	...	Misa / Jeanne Wakatsuki
Dori Takeshita	...	Young Jeanne
Akemi Kikumura	...	Koro
Clyde Kusatsu	...	Teddy Wakatsuki
Mako	...	Fukimoto
Pat Morita	...	Zenahiro
James Saito	...	Richard Wakatsuki
Momo Yashima	...	Alice
Gretchen Corbett	...	Lois
Kip Niven	...	Captain Curtis
Lou Frizzell	...	Lou Frizzell
Frank Abe	...	Nishi
Vernon Kato	...	Calvin
Seth Sakai	...	Joe Takahashi

Runtime:

120 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Filming Locations:

Alabama Hills, Lone Pine, California, USA

Company:

Korty Films

Movie Connections:

Featured in Slaying the Dragon (1988) (TV)

America's concentration camps revisited

Concentration camps? in the USA? Yes, we did have them. Oh, they went by the euphemism of internment camps or relocation centers, but they were concentration camps. I know that they were not like the Holocaust or the Killing Fields. Those were more appropriately called death camps. This movie deals with one of the camps. The story follows the book by Jean Wakatsuki Houston quite closely. It is a depressing story about a depressing subject, but one that needs to be told, nevertheless, just in case we Americans ever get too smug about other countries having institutions where political prisoners are interned...