The Ito Sisters An American Story

A featurelength documentary film that captures the stories of three Japanese American sisters interviewed in their 80s and 90s as they recount how their immigrant parents struggled to make a life in America at the beginning of the 20th century The familys chronicle is set against the backdrop of the antiJapanese movement in California a 60year campaign by politicians journalists landowners labor leaders and others that culminated in the evacuation and incarceration of more than 120000 Japanese Americans from the West Coast during World War II