1985 documentary film about Min Yasui, an attorney from Oregon, Gordon Hirabayashi, a Quaker college student in Washington, and Fred Korematsu, a San Francisco welder and how their lives were affected by Japanese American internment during World War II.
Direction
Okazaki lets survivors speak — no sensationalism needed.
Production
Rare archival footage of camps, devastating in its plainness.
Writing
Narration that knows when to shut up and listen.
Director
Steven Okazaki
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Korematsu v. United States was finally overturned in 2018 — yes, 2018 — when the Supreme Court repudiated it in Trump v. Hawaii.
Okazaki made this for PBS' American Experience, but its theatrical release helped spark the redress movement that led to official government apologies.
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