List of feature films about the Japanese American internment

Feature films about the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans include:

• American Pastime (2007) Focuses on internees' use of baseball as a source of entertainment while living in camp^[1]
• Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
• Come See the Paradise (1990) Follows an interracial family separated by the wartime incarceration program^[2]
• Day of Independence (2003) A Nisei teen immerses himself in baseball after his parents decide to return to Japan rather than remain in camp in the U.S.^[3]
• Farewell to Manzanar (1976) Made for television adaptation of Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston's memoirs of her time in the Manzanar concentration camp
• Forgotten Valor (2001) Written and directed by Lane Nishikawa, a Nisei veteran remembers his experiences during WWII^[4]
• Go for Broke! (1951) Based on the real-life story of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, a segregated army unit of Japanese American men, many of whom served while their families were incarcerated on the home front
• Hell to Eternity (1960) Biopic about Guy Gabaldon, a Mexican American Marine who was adopted by a Japanese American family at age 12 and went on to serve in WWII while his adoptive family was interned in Manzanar
• If Tomorrow Comes (1971) Made-for-TV movie following the romance between a Nisei man and a white woman at the start of WWII^[5]
• Snow Falling on Cedars (1999) Adaptation of the novel by David Guterson^[6]
• Strawberry Fields (1997)

See also

• List of documentary films about the Japanese American internment

References

1. American Pastime at the Internet Movie Database
2. Come See the Paradise at the Internet Movie Database
3. Day of Independence official website
4. Forgotten Valor at the Internet Movie Database
5. Brian Niiya, "If Tomorrow Comes" Densho Encyclopedia
6. Snow Falling on Cedars at the Internet Movie Database