Movies: Robert A. Nakamura

The film looks back at the life of a man named Oda and other Japanese Americans through the decades as they face great challenges and joys living in the United States....

This important tribute to the issei (first generation Japanese Americans) integrates the stories of three people who describe a collective history through their personal memories....

PILGRIMAGE tells the inspiring story of how an abandoned WWII concentration camp for Japanese Americans has been transformed into a symbol of retrospection and solidarity for people of all ages, races and nationalities in our post 9/11 world....

Short film about the Manzanar Japanese American internment camp. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011....

A SONG FOR OURSELVES is an intimate journey into the life and music of Asian American Movement troubadour Chris Iijima. Struggling to make sense of their father’s early death, his teenage sons learn that during the 1970s when Asians in America were s...

They were American born and bred yet they had the face of the enemy.
 Spanning generations and wars, Looking Like the Enemy is a bold and daring exploration into the often horrifying yet always ironic predicaments faced by American soldiers of Asian ...

Called "an elegant documentary" by Sundance and "eloquent and deeply moving" by the LA Times, Toyo Miyatake: Infinite Shades of Gray is a penetrating portrait of this photographer's search for truth and beauty in a world of impermanence. Los Angeles'...

Home movies from a Japanese internment camp....