1145985
1145985

Old Man River

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

1999-03-03
10
en 74m
Documentary
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.

Editor

Allan Holzman

Production Designer

Matthew Maraffi

Director of Photography

Allan Holzman

Director

Allan Holzman

Writer

Cynthia Gates Fujikawa

Sound Designer

David Van Tieghem

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

Status

Released

Budget

$5,000

Countries

  • United States of America

Companies

  • 716 Productions