80 YEARS LATER

On Japanese American Racial Inheritance in the Aftermath of WW2 Family Incarceration.

A film by Celine Parreñas Shimizu
2022 | 50 minutes

The feature documentary 80 YEARS LATER explores the racial inheritance of Japanese American family incarceration during World War II through multigenerational conversations with survivors and their descendants. 

In the 80th anniversary of Executive Order 9066 that imprisoned 120,000 Japanese Americans in World War II, families still grapple with the legacy of their experience. How does one inherit traumatic history across generations?

Praise for the film

80 Years Later is a life-affirming portrait of tragedy, trauma, and resilience—and love—in a Japanese American family that spans over a century. It offers a complex meditation on our human endeavor to grasp, relate to, and remember the past, as time marches on and the ground shifts beneath us. It’s about how that quest to seize history can be the substance of our most intimate and important relationships. 

Shelley Sang-Hee Lee
Brown University

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The distribution of the film is partially funded with a generous grant from the Takahashi Family Foundation.

https://www.takahashifoundation.org/