Gold Watch

[Played Sept. 2 via Eventbrite and available on various VOD platforms.] Lloyd Richards's poignant, heartbreaking, realistic, well-acted, down-to-earth, star-dotted (Philip Baker Hall, Robert Ito, Richard Narita, Soon Teck Oh, Evan Kim, Mary Robinson, and Virginia Wing), 90-minute, 1976 semi-autobiographical film based on Momoko Iko's stage play in which a poor, hardworking Japanese couple (Shizuko Hoshi and Mako), who live on a modest farm in California with their strong-willed teenage son (Jesse Lizon) and free-spirited young daughter (Mariel Aargon), find themselves facing racism after they lose freedom, property, and belongings when they are rounded up with other Japanese Americans and legal Japanese immigrants and incarcerated into camps during WWII after President Franklin D. Roosevelt passed the executive order in February 1942 in response to the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
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