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| PLANTATION
ROOTS (1997) |
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| SYNOPSIS |
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"King"
Sugar and its burgeoning plantations recruited Japanese,
along with Chinese, Filipinos and other ethnic groups to
Hawaii as cheap labor in the mid-late 1800s. While fueling
the economy, they made Hawaii into the multicultural state
it is today.
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| PLANTATION
ROOTS shows how, a century later, vestiges of the plantation
experience—while exploitative and grueling—can still
be seen in Hawaii's community, culture and business. Reinforced
by the Hawaii value of "ohana" or family, the camaraderie
the workers relied upon to survive the plantation system has
evolved into the spirit of warmth and generosity known as
"aloha." |
| FEATURING:
Goro Arakawa, Rev. Torako Arine, Dan Boylan, Hideo Ishigo,
Sam Ishigo, Alan Iwasaki, Haruo Kasahara, Gaylord Kubota,
Cynthia Lee, Dwight Manago, Osame Manago, Haruno Tazawa, John
Tsukano |
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| EXHIBITION
HISTORY |
| "From
Bento to Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese Ancestry in Multicultural
Hawaii" |
| Lyman
House Museum, 2000 |
| Smithsonian
Institution, 1999 |
| Bishop
Museum, Honolulu, 1997—1998 |
| Getty
Research Institute, 1997 |
| Japanese
American National Museum, 1998 |
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| PRODUCTION
CREDITS |
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Directed
by ROBERT A. NAKAMURA
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| Produced
and Written by KAREN L. ISHIZUKA |
| With an
original music score by DAN KURAMOTO |
| Editor:
VERONICA KO |
| 30 minutes.
Color |
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