Film Screening: KINTSUKUROI

Join us to watch the film with a Q&A to follow with the film director, Kerwin Berk.

Welcome by Mayor Eddie Flores with an introduction by Karyl Matsumoto, former Interim National Director of the Japanese American Citizens League and Manzanar internee.

Kintsukuroi follows members of the Ito family from their pre-war life in San Francisco's Japantown to the concentration camps of the American West to the battlefields of Europe as they struggle to pick up the pieces of their shattered lives.

Like every immigrant family, the Itos came to the United States to build a better life. After years of struggle and sacrifice, the dream that was America seemed within their grasp. Then the world changed forever. With a stroke of his pen, President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 and effectively destroyed the lives of 120,000 Japanese Americans at the onset of WWII. (Run time 138 mins).

This program is paid for by the South San Francisco Friends of the Library.

"Of all the films Nikkei writer/director Kerwin Berk has made, he says his latest film, “Kintsukuroi,” is by far his most rewarding due to the participation of an almost all-Nikkei cast and crew, and the support from the Japanese American community. Kintsukuroi is the Japanese art of repairing ceramics using lacquer and gold, creating a certain strength and beauty to each piece. Berk uses the title as a metaphor for the Japanese American experience in this feature film, which follows the lives of the Ito family from pre-war San Francisco to the concentration camps of the American West to the battlefields of Europe." -Soji Kashiwagi, Nichi Bei News, June 20, 2024.

 

When

Location

1st Floor, City Council Chambers

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