CinemaOSMovie · 1999 · 1h 14m

Old Man River

Winner of Cinequest and Vermont Film Festivals and the American Cinema Editors Eddy Award for Best Edited Documentary.

85%(2)IMDbDocumentary

Documentary film version of the stage show in which actress Cynthia Gates Fujikawa explores the story of her father, actor Jerry Fujikawa, who had a long career in films and television, most often as a stereotyped Asian. The daughter, in the course of searching out her late father's history, discovers many things that she had not known, among them that her father had spent time in Manzanar, the internment camp for Japanese-Americans during World War II, that he had had a family prior to hers, and that somewhere out there was a sister she had never known existed.

Directed byBeth Schachter

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Status
Released
Runtime
1h 14m
Language
EN
Released
March 3, 1999
Budget
$5,000
Studios
716 Productions

Featuring

Cast & crew

2 credited
Starring

Jerry Fujikawa

Himself

Cynthia Gates Fujikawa

Herself

Creative team
Directed by
Beth Schachter
Written by
Cynthia Gates Fujikawa
Produced by
Allan Holzman
Cynthia Gates Fujikawa

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