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Days of Waiting: The Life & Art of Estelle Ishigo

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The story of Estelle Ishigo, one of the few Caucasians interned with Japanese Americans during World War II. The wife of a Japanese American, Ishigo refused to be separated from her husband and was interned along with him. Based on the personal papers of Estelle Ishigo and her novel Lone Heart Mountain.

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English
  • world war ii
  • civil rights
  • japanese american
  • internment camp

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  • United StatesUS

    • TVNRPOV (PBS)15 Aug 1990
  • FranceFR

    • Theatrical1 Feb 1991

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Days of Waiting: The Life & Art of Estelle Ishigo was released on 1 February 1991.

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    CinemaSerf

    7/3/2026

    7/10

    Using her own strikingly vivid artwork, accomplished painter Estelle Ishigo tells us of her times of internment during the Second World War. She was an American citizen who had married a Japanese-American named Arthur and they lived amidst a thriving community until Pearl Harbour was bombed. The knee-jerk reaction of Uncle Sam at the time was to round up everyone with a Japanese sounding name, or with antecedence fro…

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