Tim Toyama

Zip, a 17 year-old Nisei (second-generation Japanese American) baseball pitcher, faces the tragic circumstances of the World War II internment of 110,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry. Set in a relocation camp in the summer of 1943, this film chronicles the journey of an American family torn apart by a forced and unjust incarceration, a father's decision that challenges his son to find strength, and ultimately his son's triumph through courage, sacrifice and the All-American game of baseball.

Zip, a 17 year-old Nisei (second-generation Japanese American) baseball pitcher, faces the tragic circumstances of the World War II internment of 110,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry. Set in a relocation camp in the summer of 1943, this film chronicles the journey of an American family torn apart by a forced and unjust incarceration, a father's decision that challenges his son to find strength, and ultimately his son's triumph through courage, sacrifice and the All-American game of baseball.

1940年夏、ソ連に併合されかけている小国リトアニアの各国大使館や領事館は、相次いで閉鎖されつつあった。同時にナチスの侵略も迫っていた。そんな時期に、命の危険を感じた大量のユダヤ難民が、安全な第三国へ逃れようと日本領事館に殺到する。ビザを発行してくれるのはもはや日本領事館しか残っていないのだ。領事代理の杉原千畝は本国外務省にビザ発行の許可を求める。本省からは「発給は不許可」との返信電報が届くが…。