| Movie Review | The Journal of American History, 88.3

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Movie Review

Rabbit in the Moon. Prod. by Emiko Omori, 1999. 60 mins. (New Day Films, c/o Transit Media, 22D Hollywood Ave., Hohokus, NJ 07423)

Conscience and the Constitution. Prod. by Frank Abe and Shannon Gee. Independent Television Service (ITVS), 2000. 60 mins. (Resistors.com, c/o Transit Media, 22D Hollywood Ave., Hohokus, NJ 07423)

These two films about the internment superbly challenge a grand narrative about Japanese American history since the attack on Pearl Harbor. According to the familiar narrative, Japanese Americans stoically complied with evacuation and internment; demonstrated their patriotism through the valor and blood of their young men on European battlefields; and, with their loyalty to America thus reaffirmed and proven, moved into mainstream, middle-class America after the war. Among Japanese Americans, veterans of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team and 100th Battalion have enjoyed near-legendary status, and recently the Nisei interpreters in the Military Intelligence Service have also been gaining greater public appreciation for their wartime duty in the Pacific. In opposition to the dominant narrative, however, the filmmakers Emiko Omori and Frank Abe in their separate films honor those who spoke and acted out against the injustice of their imprisonment. . . .

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