History and Memory: For Akiko and Takashige

Synopsis

This film is a poetic composition of recorded history and non-recorded memory. Filmmaker Rea Tajiri’s family was among the 120,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans who were imprisoned in internment camps after the attack on Pearl Harbor. And like so many who were in the camps, Tajiri’s family wrapped their memories of that experience in a shroud of silence and forgetting. This film raises questions about collective history – questions that prompt Tajiri to daringly re-imagine and re-create what has been stolen and what has been lost.

Main Cast

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Rea Tajiri
Writing	Writer	Rea Tajiri
Camera	Director of Photography	Rea Tajiri Angel Velasco Shaw
Editing	Editor	Rea Tajiri
	Online Editor	Robert Burden
Production	Researcher	Eric Davies
Crew	Additional Writing	Noel Shaw Sokhi Wagner
Department	Role	Name

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