Strawberry Fields (1997 film)
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Director Rea Tajiri Genres Drama, Political drama Country United States | 6.4/10 IMDb Screenplay Kerri Sakamoto Duration Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 1997 Writer Kerri Sakamoto, Rea Tajiri Cast Suzy Nakamura , Chris Tashima , James Sie , Takayo Fischer , Marilyn Tokuda Similar movies American Pastime (2007) Tagline What Happend to Her? And the Strawberry Fields | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Strawberry Fields (1997) is an independent feature film directed by Japanese American filmmaker Rea Tajiri and co-written by Tajiri and Japanese Canadian author Kerri Sakamoto.
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Background
Strawberry Fields was filmed in Chicago, Illinois, and in California. It received funding from CPB, NEA and ITVS, and was completed in 1997. It premiered at the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival and was an Official Selection to the Venice Film Festival. It also screened at the Los Angeles Film Festival and won the Grand Prix at the Fukuoka Asian Film Festival. Film critic Roger Ebert called the film "... a moving piece of work." It was released on VHS and DVD by Vanguard Cinema.
Plot
The story of the film centers on Irene Kawai, a Japanese American teenager in Chicago in the 1970s who is haunted by a photo of her grandfather she never knew, standing by a barracks in a World War II internment camp for Japanese Americans. Prompted by visits from the ghost of Terri, her dead baby sister, Irene journeys with her boyfriend, Luke, on a road trip to Arizona, where the Poston War Relocation Center once stood, and where the photo of her grandfather was taken.
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References
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