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Chris Tashima

Day of Independence

  • Drama
  • Family
  • History

A desert. A baseball diamond. A friendship. America, 1943.

RELEASE

2003-09-26

BUGET

N/A

LENGTH

27 min

Description

Zip, a 17 year-old Nisei (second-generation Japanese American) baseball pitcher, faces the tragic circumstances of the World War II internment of 110,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry. Set in a relocation camp in the summer of 1943, this film chronicles the journey of an American family torn apart by a forced and unjust incarceration, a father's decision that challenges his son to find strength, and ultimately his son's triumph through courage, sacrifice and the All-American game of baseball.