WWII

“Kuroi Ame (Black Rain)” Dir. Shohei Imamura

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8SVFTxWvyc   Kuroi-Ame (Black Rain) 1989 "I'm not to live to die. War's continued living in my body." A Japanese legend director, Imamura Shohei, a two-time Cannne Palm d'or winner whom Martin Scorsese called "my master," created this black and white film based on a novel by Ibuse Masuji. The film draws aftermath of the Hiroshima atomic bomb [Read more...]

“History and Memory” by Rea Tajiri (US)

"A search for a non-existent image, a desire to create an image where there is none," leads to Rea Tajiri's composition on recorded history and non-recorded memory. Framed by the haunting facts of the post-Pearl Harbor Japanese internment camps (which dislocated 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II), Tajiri creates a version of her family's story through interviews and historical detail, [Read more...]