🎬 Documentary

Old Man River

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

⭐ 8.5/10 1999 1h 14m Dir. Beth Schachter

About this movie

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.

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Year
1999
Runtime
1h 14m
TMDB Rating
⭐ 8.5/10
Votes
2
Genre
Documentary
Director
Language
EN

Cast

🎭 Documentary 🎬 Beth Schachter 👤 Jerry Fujikawa 👤 Cynthia Gates Fujikawa
world war ii family secrets racial stereotype japanese american internment camp japanese american internment 1940s father daughter relationship independent film long lost sibling japanese american history

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Old Man River has a runtime of 1h 14m (1 hour and 14 minutes).
Old Man River was directed by Beth Schachter and released in 1999.
Old Man River is a Documentary film (1999).
The cast of Old Man River includes Jerry Fujikawa, Cynthia Gates Fujikawa.
Old Man River has a TMDB rating of 8.5/10 based on 2 votes.

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