Directed by Jari Osborne Narrated by Jari Osborne Country Canada Director Jari Osbourne Music director Guy Zerafa | Written by Jari Osborne Release date 1999 (1999) Initial release December 1999 (Canada) Screenplay Jari Osbourne | |
Awards Gemini Awards - Canada Award Similar Rude, Bollywood Bound, Ron Taylor: Dr Baseball, Birth of the Living Dead, The Norse: An Arctic Mystery | ||
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Unwanted Soldiers is a 1999 made-for-TV documentary written, directed and narrated by Jari Osborne for the National Film Board of Canada. It won the Canada Award at the 2000 Gemini Awards.
The film tells the story of Osborne's father and other Chinese-Canadian veterans who fought in World War II, documenting a history of discrimination against them and the Chinese-Canadian community in British Columbia. Osborne's father and his compatriots recall their training for clandestine missions behind enemy lines in Southeast Asia, as they fought for a country that had discriminated again them.
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