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Old Man River

Old Man River

★ 8.5/10•1999•1h 14m•Documentary

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

Cynthia Gates Fujikawa · Writer

Beth Schachter · Director

StatusReleased
Runtime1h 14m
LanguageEN
Release DateMar 3, 1999
Budget$5,000

Actors

Jerry Fujikawa

Himself

Cynthia Gates Fujikawa

Herself

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