Program Type:
Featured, Miss Breed, Citizenship and Immigration, Community Engagement, Cultural Appreciation, FilmsAge Group:
AdultsProgram Description
Event Details
Directed by Kayo Hatta / 1995 / 95 mins
Between 1907 and 1924, more than 20,000 young women made the journey from Japan to Hawaii, promised to husbands they knew only through photographs. Picture Bride tells the story of one of them, Riyo, forced to leave Yokohama, Japan under a cloud. She has learned a little English and hopes to make the best of the "paradise" her future husband has described in letters, but when she sees him she can't believe her eyes. This landmark Asian American film is the first dramatic feature film written, produced and directed by Asian American women.
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Part of Right to Resist: From 9066 to 2021 (Sept 13 - Dec 13) curated by Brian Hu of San Diego Asian Film Festival for The Rebellious Miss Breed. The series chronicles resistance, from Fred Korematsu’s acts of disobedience against the incarceration of Japanese Americans to contemporary outrage against post-9/11 internment and racism targeting Muslim Americans and those of South Asian and Middle Eastern descent. Collectively, these works take the Japanese American incarceration and the recent racially-tinged paranoia not as discrete eras, but as a continuum of hate, heartbreak, and distress that has mired our nation from its founding, but that has also inspired its victims to consider more purposefully and imaginatively the paths of resistance that are just as foundational to the nation’s ideals of liberty.
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This conversation is part of the program series The Rebellious Miss Breed: San Diego Public Library and the Japanese American Incarceration
This project was made possible with support from California Humanities, a partner of the NEH. Visit calhum.org.