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Old Man River

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

8.5(2)19991h 14m1

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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Status
Released
Budget
$5K
Box office
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Language
English
  • 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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United States of America

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • PremiereCinequest Film Festival - San Jose3 Mar 1999

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Old Man River was released on 3 March 1999.

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