Old Man River
"Winner of Cinequest and Vermont Film Festivals and the American Cinema Editors Eddy Award for Best Edited Documentary."
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.
About Old Man River (1999)
Released in 1999, Old Man River is a documentary film from 716 Productions (United States of America). It was directed by Beth Schachter and written by Cynthia Gates Fujikawa. The cast is led by Jerry Fujikawa and Cynthia Gates Fujikawa. With a runtime of 1h 14m, the film averages 8.5/10 across 2 TMDB ratings.
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