Kintsukuroi Film Screening

Date:: Saturday, August 22
Time:: 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cost:: $15

Organizer:: Japanese American Museum of Oregon
Phone: (503) 224-1458

Location:: Clinton Street Theater, 2522 SE Clinton Street, Portland, 97202 + Google Map

Kintsukuroi, a new historical drama from director Kerwin Berk, follows members of the Ito family from their pre-war life in San Francisco’s Japantown to the concentration camps of the American West to the battlefields of Europe as they endure one of the most shameful periods in American history.

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1. Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold

2. The beauty and strength found within something that has been broken

Like every immigrant family, the Itos came to the United States to build a better life. After years of struggle and sacrifice, the dream that was America seemed within its grasp. Then the bombs fell and the world changed forever. With a stroke of his pen, President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 and effectively destroyed the lives of 120,000 Japanese Americans at the onset of WWII.

After the film, there will be a panel discussion with director Kerwin Berk and several members of the cast and crew.

Event Accessibility:

Wheelchair-accessible venue