A documentary film about the treatment of Japanese-Americans in Portland, Oregon following the attacks on Pearl Harbor. Five Nisei (2nd generation Japanese-American) talk about their experiences as citizens, prisoners, war heroes and survivors during a dark period in America's history.

A WWII Japanese Zero fighter pilot, haunted from the past is forced to confront his fears when he meets an old enemy, a U.S. Army Japanese American 442nd soldier and plays a fateful game of chess.
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This Visual Communications production is a historical narrative based on a true story of Mexican American, Ralph Lazo, who voluntarily joined his Japanese American friends to Manzanar. Blending documentary and narrative styles, Esaki uncovers a history of racial solidarity that is a lesson for our own time.