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CATEGORIES:Arts,Film Screening
DESCRIPTION:THE ITO SISTERS is a feature-length documentary film that captu
 res the stories of three Japanese American sisters\, interviewed in their e
 ighties and nineties\, as they recount how their immigrant parents struggle
 d to make a life in the United States at the beginning of the 20th century.
  The family’s chronicle is set against the backdrop of the anti-Japanese mo
 vement in California\, a 60-year campaign by politicians\, journalists\, la
 ndowners\, labor leaders and others that culminated in the evacuation and i
 ncarceration of more than 120\,000 Japanese Americans from the West Coast d
 uring World War II. THE ITO SISTERS is written\, directed and produced by A
 ntonia Grace Glenn\, the granddaughter of the middle of the three sisters.\
 n\n \n\nTHE ITO SISTERS captures the rarely told stories of the earliest Ja
 panese immigrants to the United States and their American-born children. In
  particular\, the film focuses on the experiences of Issei (or immigrant) a
 nd Nisei (or first generation born in the US) women\, whose voices have lar
 gely been excluded from American history. At the center of the film are thr
 ee Nisei sisters: Natsuye (Nancy)\, Haruye (Lillian) and Hideko (Hedy)\, wh
 o were born on a farm in the Sacramento River Delta and whose lives were di
 rectly impacted by some of the most significant events of 20th-century Amer
 ica\, from the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 to the Great Depression to 
 World War II. The film also explores the lives of the women's parents\, Yet
 susaburo and Toku Ito\, who came to the United States to earn money so they
  could return to Japan\, but whose plans were repeatedly thwarted.\n\n \n\n
 The film will be followed by a panel with:\nAntonia Grace Glenn\, Writer\, 
 Director\, and Producer of Film\nEvelyn Nakano Glenn\, Lead Scholar of Film
 \nThe panel will be moderated by Prof. Velina Hasu Houston \n\n \n\nTo view
  a trailer of the film\, go to: https://www.itosisters.com/.\n\n \n\nThis e
 vent is presented by the Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Cultu
 re\, and co-sponsored by the East Asian Studies Center\, USC School of Dram
 atic Arts\, and the USC Asian Pacific Alumni Association.
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DTSTART:20240405T220000Z
GEO:34.02213;-118.282691
LOCATION:Montgomery Ross Fisher Building (MRF)\, MRF 340
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:Film Screening: "The Ito Sisters: An American Story"
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URL:https://calendar.usc.edu/event/film_screening_the_ito_sisters_an_americ
 an_story
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