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My project recently was awarded a grant from the Japanese American Confinment Sites program of the National Park Service.to begin location production on They Took My Father Too.

an adaptation of a story written by incarceree Fujiwo Tanisaki and published in 1944 in the Tule Lake literary journal Tessaku (Iron Fence).and uses the words of Japanese writers and journalists of Little Tokyo to give new insight into this time through documentary storytelling.By KONRAD ADERERSince 2019 Ive been researching Japanese-language literature written in incarceration and adapting some of the stories for film.

This is not the last appeal Ill be making for They Took My Father Too.In the How would you like to allocate your donation? drop-down menu.

Starting next week Ill be going to L.

The story follows a Japanese American family living in Little Tokyo.GWEN MURANAKA / Rafu ShimpoMarian Kubota (second from left) with her daughters Carrie Kubota Yokoyama.

Taiko drummer Johnny Mori said that watching Sumako dance to Hiroshimas music would give him chicken skin.I didnt study with Sumako-sensei directly but my sensei (Azuma Kikusue) studied with her.

I remember my first impression of Sumako.15 at the James Armstrong Theater in Torrance.