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Underwritten by United States - Japan Foundation
Documentary Film - Fall Seven Times, Get up Eight: The Japanese War Brides
Discussion led by Co-Director Karen Kasmauski and Moderator Carla Stansifer, Curator of Japanese Art
Despite lingering wartime enmity, tens of thousands of Japanese wives -- the biggest influx of Asian women in U.S. history -- crossed the Pacific. They began new lives in difficult and to them mysterious circumstances, scattered across the country in places where they were often the first Japanese ever seen. What was it like to abandon family, friends and country, and marry a former enemy? Even for those whose choice of spouse proved to be a tragic mistake, there was no turning back. Many in Japan viewed them as social outcasts and even today the words "war bride" in Japanese carry such a stigma -- of bar girls, even prostitution -- that people don't like to say them. Now these women are in their 80s. This is their story, of lives shaped by one irrevocable decision.
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Take a cinematic journey through Japan with the Morikami Film Series
Film: Perfect Days
Underwritten by Linda and Michael Sonnenreich
A romantic and thrilling story that spans several decades and continents, Touch follows one man’s emotional journey to find his first love who disappeared 50 years go…before his time runs out.