Nobu McCarthy
Nacimiento : 1934-11-13, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Muerte : 2002-04-06
Shinobu Yamashita
In 1908, Titoe leaves her country, Japan, to try her luck in Brazil. Her intention is just to get rich and return in five years. But life has other plans for her.
Miss Bea
Dreams collide in a small cafe in the California desert when a man and a woman must decide whether or not to gamble on an uncertain future.
Sari Hatano
In the middle of the desert, a solipsistic Japanese-American woman, along with her elderly and paralysed friend Barbara, runs the Desert Rose Cafe. Things liven up with the arrival of a mafia henchman (whose boss is hiding out at a nearby ranch), a battered Japanse man (who turns out to be a terrific chef, but who also triggers Barbara's memories of internment during WWII), and an attack on the mob boss' camp.
Mira Watanabe
Patty y Drake compran una gran casa y para poder pagarla deciden alquilar el piso inferior. Y entonces comienzan sus problemas, porque su inquilino no está dispuesto ni a pagar el alquiler ni tampoco a marcharse. Sus planes son otros: se aprovechará de que la ley está de su parte para provocar a los propietarios del modo más retorcido y cruel, a la espera de que su reacción sea constitutiva de delito.
A highly critical documentary about the history of Asian-American actresses in Hollywood. Features interviews with pioneering Asian-American actresses and clips from classic films such as "The Thief of Bagdad", "The Good Earth", and "The World of Suzie Wong", interspersed with Asian/feminist sociological commentary.
Masi Matsumoto
Mako is a neglectful husband. Not the most loving man. His wife gradually encounters a widower who is a kind, gentle figure. She eventually makes the transition to leave her husband and go to this fellow.
Yukie
Daniel y el señor Miyagi viajan a Okinawa, a la pequeña aldea en la que el anciano nació y de la que tuvo que marcharse por un asunto de honor. Su padre está gravemente enfermo y quiere verlo, pero también le espera su antiguo amor de juventud. La llegada del señor MIyagi reabre unas heridas que el tiempo y la distancia parecían haber borrado.
Misa / Jeanne Wakatsuki
Fact based drama about one of the internment camps used by the American military during World War II to detain some 100,000 Japanese Americans (most of them U.S. born) following Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.
Zora Lewin
The captain of a downed airliner must help his crew and passengers survive on a deserted jungle island in the midst of a power struggle - an adult version of "Lord of the Flies."
Whareparita
Ana, una maestra de escuela en un poblado de Nueva Zelanda, llega a los treinta sin haber conocido el amor. Lo que ignora es que no le faltan pretendientes... un atractivo maestro inglés que ha intentado alguna vez suicidarse por sus problemas de adaptación y un hombre maduro casado, que es el inspector general, fascinado con la joven y sus adelantadas ideas sobre la educación. Ahora debe decidirse entre los dos. (FILMAFFINITY)
Ume Tanaka
The war may be over, but that doesn't keep the hapless Gus Brubaker from being drafted and posted on a forgotten little Japanese Island...and that's just the beginning of this wacky Air Force adventure!
Kim Sung
California, 1870s. The cowboy Lincoln 'Linc' Bartlett finds out there's a slave auction of Chinese women in San Francisco and he intervenes and purchases the Chinese Kim Sung from the auction with the intent of setting her free. But it doesn't occur to Linc that setting her free isn't enough. Where is she going to go? Kim doesn't speak English and she's just going to be exploited by somebody else. Linc takes Kim home to serve as a housekeeper. Ma Bartlett Linc's mother, is not happy that a Chinese girl is living in her home, and even less happy when Kim and her son fall in love. Their affair also arouses the jealousy of Cheng Lu, a Chinese immigrant.
Chioko
A group of nurses, doctors and nuns are taken hostage in Vietnam and sent up river to a castle hideout so they can cure an ailing war general.
B-girl in nightclub
An American serviceman stationed in Tokyo, who's engaged to a local singer, faces both a military court-martial and a trial in the Japanese courts after an accidental shooting in which a teenager is killed.
Kimi Sikita
Gilbert Wooley es un mago de segunda fila que es enviado al Pacifico con la misión de entretener a las tropas. Durante este tiempo en Japón, se encariña cada vez más con un niño huérfano.