Old Man River (1999)

Overview : Documentary film version of the stage show in which actress Cynthia Gates Fujikawa explores the story of her father, actor Jerry Fujikawa, who had a long career in films and television, most often as a stereotyped Asian. The daughter, in the course of searching out her late father's history, discovers many things that she had not known, among them that her father had spent time in Manzanar, the internment camp for Japanese-Americans during World War II, that he had had a family prior to hers, and that somewhere out there was a sister she had never known existed.

Release Date : March 3, 1999

Runtime : 74m

Genre : Documentary  

Companies : 716 Productions

Countries : United States of America

Keywords : world war ii, racial stereotype, japanese american, internment camp, japanese american internment, 1940s, father daughter relationship, independent film, long lost sibling, japanese american history, family secret